Kalli Delonges ran along the rocks that scattered the stream bank. She carried her hunting dagger with her as she ran, her long black hair pulled back into a messy ponytail. She jumped from a small rock onto a large one sitting farther into the center of the stream, and crouched down to one knee. She slowed her breathing so she could listen sounds of the surrounding forest. Kalli tilted her head to the side as she heard the crack of a stick under the foot, or paw of someone out hidden in the trees. She kept her body still and scanned the surrounding area with her bright grey eyes.<br/><br/>She kept her position and pulled out her dagger, as she spotted a black movement far off in the green leaves of the trees. She squinted her eyes and followed the black movement, trying to figure out what the shape was. She squinted her eyes harder, when suddenly her vision began to blur.<span style="font-style: italic">What?!</span>She thought to herself, as she closed her eyes and shook her head. She opened her eyes again, and located the shape in the trees again, and squinted her eyes. Her vision quickly blurred again, but before she could close her eyes, she saw a large black bear prowling through the trees. She yelped and slipped from the rock her was crouched on, making a large splash in the stream.<br/><br/>Scrabbling she reached for her dagger and pushed herself up off a rock beside her. Kalli cautiously looked around for the bear she just saw, but couldn't see anything. She looked down at herself soaking wet from slipping into the stream and sighed at herself for startling so easily. Kalli shook herself, then rolled her eyes, when she heard something stumbling through the wood towards her.<span style="font-style: italic">The bear</span>She quickly decided to shift into her favorite form, the wolf.  She shifted with ease and now a large beautiful black wolf with yellow eyes, and a grey swirl around one leg, where her tattoos are located in her human for, now stood in her place. She began sniffing the air, and twitching her ears towards the area where she thought she saw the bear, when it came crashing through the trees.<br/><br/>Kalli quickly turned and began to dart in the opposite direction, knowing that if she could get the bear off her trail, she could escape it. As she ran she continued to think about what had just happened, how nothing like that had ever happened before, and how it even happened. She wondered if it had anything to do with being a shifter.