The woods were always comforting, even her actual home was closer to the woods. "She's been with us since she shifted the first time, at 14. So nearly ten years now." With a sad laugh she shook her head. "No not at all. Not all children shift. Not all who do survive. Some time around puberty, there is a first shift, her brother actually started to shift two years before she did and he did not survive it. It's an excrutiating matter. Surviving gives us a higher pain tolerance because of it."