The whole thing is different. I'm a weremongoose. I have been since the day I was born. And now suddenly, suddenly when I shift, it's into a hyena, and I can't even manage a half form.

[Barabas is more than a little bitter about the whole thing, though the bitterness is a decent way to hide the fact that it's gotten him shaken. His other form is part of him, and now it's changed, and that's like some part of himself that's been removed and replaced with some half-familiar substitute.]

So did I. I preferred it that way. One version was complicated enough.