The pit | I fell in the pit

"I don't know," Vai said truthfully, "but it definitely doesn't sound impossible, Remi. A lot of strange things have happened since we all came here. This is just the latest in a long line of horrible." She sighed, scooting towards the edge of the pit without being so careless as to dangle any appendages invitingly over the side. Vai shook her head. "That's not why you're down here," she said. "Your friends just didn't know how to help you. You're right - a lion is not like a hawk. Try picking a lion up and taking it to the infirmary in your arms." At that she managed the faintest of smiles. Then the beast roared forth again and Vai frowned. "Then you need to control it, Remi. If you don't want to hurt anyone, you need to learn to make it part of you, the same as being a hawk. I don't... I've never been a shapechanger. But I married two." She shrugged. "It's you. The hawk in you can be cold and vicious and predatory too, but you're still Remi." No solution wasn't good enough for Vai. Thinking, hard, she nodded at him suddenly. "Maybe you could try and shift," she said. "Into a lion, on purpose. And then back again. You decide, don't let it get a chance to." vervain where the wild things are