Analise When I wasn't studying, which most of the time I was, my time was spent wondering about in the woods alongside the jaguar, foraging for snacks, going for swims in the stream. The time spent outdoors was becoming my favorite, full of adventure and mostly one-sided conversations, but today was different. Pacing back and forth, the jaguar was acting strange—mostly because it was in human form. Kai never preferred his human form. Frazzled almost, clearly out of sorts, he was itching at his skin. I watched from where I was seated on the grass, surrounded by some devoted small animals, all of whom kept making little piles of pebbles, flowers, and various fruits around me. I’d stopped accepting them little by little but the piles just continued nonetheless, each creature determined

