cut our teeth and make our bones right here

Remi

Welcome to the wild, no heroes and villains
Welcome to the war, we've only begun

There is only a moment before the light pours across the creature's face, but it's surely long enough for Ronin to see the look of surprise part its lips before it's overtaken by white. There's a hiss of static and then there's nothing at all. The creatures in the woods were either affected by the light as the shapechanger was, or decided to let things alone for now.

Either way.

There's no real ragged breathing to indicate the Wendigo's pain as you might expect, if only because its need for oxygen was so low. Still, breath hissed in and out of the grotesque and boney features of his face, before growing loudly and decidedly more human as he shifted. Thankfully unaffected by the cold given how very little clothing he'd managed not to shred, Remi knelt forward as if poorly attempting childs pose, before bracing himself against the snow and trying to sit up. The knife was lodged all the way into his stomach, just to the right of his belly button and was presently oozing a ghastly black sort of sludge. 'Had I known...we were going ... to run into...a friend of yours..' Remi says between hiccups of pain, "..I..would have brought..them some ...flowers."

Higher and higher you chase it
It's deep in your blood, go and take it

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!