Chapter One
Interviewer: You’ve referred to this hunt many times, of this dangerous task that you and her had to see through. Can you elaborate on what it was about?
Caleb: It was about doing what was right.
Interviewer: How did this particular hunt start? Take me back to the beginning.
- Excerpt from Interview with a Shapeshifter, Monster Magazine 03, by Circe Cole. Printed with expressed permission.
CALEB
The Bali tiger was long extinct, but for only one, but for only him. The shape of his scapulae, high-angled, showed through his black-streaked crimson fur like the tips of two spearheads. His body, efficient, lay low to the leafy jungle floor, blended in, became invisible. His paws, large as plates, padded in silence. There would not be the rustle of a leaf, or the snap of a twig,
