Re: [Canis]
As you swallow the memory berry, you feel something in your stomach clench and your mind seems to fray at the edges for a split second as you experience the memory unfolding in your consciousness.
[[You remember being hungry and thirsty. You remember something about what you ate made the ground lurch around under your feet. You remember your brother telling you it would be like this, but you never really expected it to be quite as powerful as it was.
You don't know if you've been wandering a few hours or a few days. You concentrate only one putting one foot in front of the other, your cloak pulled close around your shoulders, to ward off the wind and sun as you continued blindly. There comes a point that none of it really seems real at all. It's almost as if reality snapped around you and you walk up out of your body. Gliding along, you wonder, only briefly, if this is what death is like, and if the [Gentleman] will ask for your cloak soon.
You remember a soft glow, golden fur catching your attention as She trundles out before you in your spiritual journey.
Immediately, you kneel before her, pressing your forehead to the parched ground in supplication. The large muzzle snuffles, blowing hot air across your neck... and oddly, you remember the smell of honey and baked sparrows on it. You feel a giant paw, the size of your head, touch your back lightly and your whole body shakes, warm, full of a pleasure that can't quite be called physical...
And you're back in your body, it's shuddering, still hungry, still thirsty... but you feel it.. rippling through you as your body changes, bones resetting themselves painlessly, stretching into a new, four-legged form.
You feel wild, exhilarated and full of power. For the first time ever, you truly run.]]
As you return, the memory settles, interlaced with the rest of your recovered life, as if that was just another part of the world and people you left behind. It's hard to shake any of the conviction that it was real and it had happened to you, any more than you would a normal memory.