I missed most of the fun today, given an overly busy schedule at work, but I didn’t want to utterly lose the opportunity to chime in about shifters. My books are published through Katarr Kanticles Press, where our unofficial tagline is “we are team Furry!”

The irony, here, is that my Red Slaves series has nothing furry about it. My shifters are dragons–and don’t even know enough about themselves to understand what it takes to find their alter egos. With that, I offer you a small snippet of how my protagonist, Anne, faces the possibility that she too is a dragon:

She snickers. “You don’t trust much of anything these days.”

“Would you? With so many changes, and people telling you your body has an entirely new form you haven’t been able to see or measure or explore? I think if I could just get a real sense of this alternate version of myself, I might settle down. But maybe it was only Natasha’s magic that allowed that. That’s why I need to you to check this translation. I think there might be instructions for us on how to access that other form.”

“That would be worth reading, for sure.” She’s nodding, following my logic, reassuring me I haven’t lost my capacity to reason.

In this story, Anne represents a hard-nosed approach to TRUTH–she does everything she can to deny the possibility of magic in the world, and doesn’t realize how much she’s divorced herself from reality until she’s confronted with bigger challenges.

To me, that’s the real wonder of beings with two forms: Their easy access to a mystical component to life that allows for a completely different perspective.

Do you ever long for the escape to a different body’s perspective?