She made a little bit of a noise and wavered her hand in front of her. "It is but it isn't. It isn't the form I was born into. This is. Hank thought the reason I needed to focus like I do is because I spent a month as the feline, because I couldn't figure out how to turn back. Some of the younger shifters were sure I was going to have to stay the way I was." Maryanne paused to take a sip of her drink. "Certain parts of me remain feline, even after I change."