(urth) AEG: Margaret

[Dave Tallman]

Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> So if Margaret is really an over-the-hill Cassie who wants to give her
> younger self a second chance at a happier life, who went to Woldercan
> seeking something she apparently didn't find, what did she accomplish there?
> If, as Dave Tallman has suggested, Margaret is now a shape-changer, whether
> or not an actual werewolf, when and where did she acquire that ability, and
> was it her choice?
>
> I mean, only humans can transform themselves; Wolders can't do it, and Gid
> said he (personally) couldn't do it. (99-100) So it doesn't seem likely that
> Cassie learned how to transform on Woldercan.
>   
There's another place where Cassie could have begun to learn this. Chase 
said that werewolves "want the wild and a liberation from human 
morality" (207). When the Volcano God danced with her, "It freed 
something that had been bound before; after it she danced as he did..." 
(286). The Volcano God was something of a shape-changer himself; he 
chose to appear to her as Vince. This may have been the start of her own 
ability.