[She looks down at him, and eases back onto the tree, relaxes. The shift back comes slowly, her paws and ears, her eyes, the stretch of her limbs, the tail. The last thing to change is the color of her, the fur of her, until finally she's back to Daphne again.]

Probably. I'm not spreading your secrets, Josh. You're the only one on board I can talk to.

[She doesn't say that her privacy is the most important thing to her, that when she told him those things, she gave him a slice of that privacy to guard, that it's not about her shifting but things like she doesn't keep a boyfriend, things that are about her.

But then something occurs to her.]

Hurt? Wait, are you saying it hurts you when you shift? Every time?