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Shape Shifter Immortality
Shape shifters start off life very small. They get bigger and learn about life and at some point they get smaller again. Once they reach a tiny point they begin to get bigger again. Neither their awareness nor their body is completely lost through the cycle. They just learn about shifting more and get wiser and more skillful. Eventually, they are able to be big or small and develop other abilities, but that can take thousands of years. Shape shifters can be hurt by a variety of things such as no water, being hit by a car, fire, and being lonely.
Right away, I knew she was a shape-shifter. She appeared with grey-brown long hair, sitting on a park bench. Her hair didn’t move the way a person’s would. She looked at me for a long time while I walked the path that was in front of the park bench she sat on. When I passed, she asked if there was any fire. She was, in a way, telling me that her kind doesn’t like fire. She barely moved… ancient. I wondered what person she was mimicking. Someone she’d seen long ago whom she’d watched, and was long gone? A beautiful grandmother figure; or maybe just the first human-like creature she’d ever seen? I told her no, there weren’t any fires coming. I hope that’s true for her and her kind, and for us, in our tiny town of precious mortals and ancient shape-shifters.
