[She shook her head.] Even the few humans that know seem to be more uncomfortable with it than a giant cat. I don't know why. Probably because it looks more like what a monster should look like than if we just did the animal form. I think it unsettles them on that primal level.

[She'd never shifted into her hybrid form in front of a non-shifter. Not since she'd heard a few of the human family members of a shifter clan she was staying at say how it freaked them out when her brother had. Werewolves didn't shift the same way werecats did, so it seemed to be a bit too much for them to take.] If you want a conversation, that's what I'll have to go as, unless you don't mind headbutts and nips to help me make my point.