"Breathe," Eric instructed softly, his lips close to her ear. "Don"t be so hard on yourself. As far as I know, no one has ever had to accept two animal spirits at once."
"What about the other dual affinities you mentioned?"
"They’re generally born with one animal and don"t get the second until adulthood, when they’re mated, or they inherit both from their parents and grow up with them from infancy."
"How do I accept the hawk without repressing the rest of me? Or do I constantly have to choose which part of myself I"m going to hold back? And what about my human side? How can it compete with these powerful spirits inside me?"
"It doesn"t. My family, we aren"t hawk or human. We"re both, always."
She thought back to her eel transformation. That was how it had felt. But how could she be th
