"Spent a clutch of days shapeshifted into something that normally I would rip the head off of if I saw it," Stone says with a snort. "A Fell ruler, the breeding class of the Raksura's crueler sister species. It went away after a while, only then I kept seeing things speeding up and slowing down."

He circles Kuai with a concerned frown. "That looks like it hurts a lot more than mine did. There anything I can do?"