"Do you miss other fauns, now?" Asar-Suti asks, voicing his deepest worry. "Would you rather have a real faun than a shape-shifting pool of purple fire?"

He shakes his head. "I thought you were going to look into that animagus process from your world to see if you could have both shapes? You have changed often enough already; your morphogenic field would know both shapes as 'really you', I suppose."