[Cassie hurries after him, already feeling the itch in her skin and burning in her limbs that signals the change. Being startled can do it, or being scared or too hungry or even too hot or cold. Her momma's said it takes time to master, but she's getting really sick of changing at a moment's notice.
She stumbles into the gap, doubling over and groaning like she has some terrible stomachache, hair falling into her face. There's a horrifying moment where her limbs snap and crack like breaking twigs, and she twists on herself and then --
-- well, then Cassie isn't standing there anymore. Or she is, but in a...very different form.]
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She stumbles into the gap, doubling over and groaning like she has some terrible stomachache, hair falling into her face. There's a horrifying moment where her limbs snap and crack like breaking twigs, and she twists on herself and then --
-- well, then Cassie isn't standing there anymore. Or she is, but in a...very different form.]