When they wake up, she still isn't back.
[Jane?]
No response.
Kas teleports down to the Janepoint, Petaal wrapped snake-shaped around his shoulders.
The display reads: error 7788: lycanthropy
"...So that's new," he says.
"No shit," says Petaal. "Now what?"
He shrugs. She coils tighter.
"Hang around and wait, I guess."
"Ooh, pretty colours," says Helen. Kalavar turns into a dragon with many colours again, but a more rounded froggy sort of dragon.
They are so tiny and cute! Kalavar flaps her colourful wings in glee, clinging to Helen's shoulder with her rounded froggy toes.
"Well," says Ranata. "Technically, but people wouldn't be touching Kalavar anyway. And if they did, and they didn't stop right away, she can turn into a poison frog and Helen can scream at the top of her lungs. Understand, dear? If anyone ever does that and it's not an accident they correct right away, you be poisonous or spiky or slippery and you get away. That's not ever okay until you are grown up and decide so."
Kalavar swims with the puffins as a magnificently colourful sea serpent with winglike fins.