Noosha/Introduction

When one became separate from the darkness, one does not recall clearly. It is...unusual and one is not sure there are words to describe being part of the whole. But one remembers experiences in this new skin.

One seems to have inhabited a young Spotted Hyena named Noosha, the daughter of a hunter and a tinker. They kept this one fed and sheltered, but they lamented often that their little Noosha seemed...different. No longer as close and affectionate; no longer emotional and innocent. After an incident where this one repaid an assault on her flesh by calm amputation of a piece of the offender, one was taken to Firmament to see if any of their scholars could figure out her strange behavior.

        A group of Skunk scholars studied this one and shook their heads, saying she had been been "infected by shadows" and there was "no known cure" for it, though they could bind the 'shadow' to the 'shell' and prevent it from destroying its host and moving on.