Fire was very much confused still.   Likely just as much as Tamara was!<br/>"Huh?   I am still at a loss- oh, wait!   You mean for me to be small, so I can take a ride on your back, don't you?"  he asked with surprise.   There was still that issue of how he would become small.   There was a solution to that, though, and the gryphon may as well answer the tigress's question with at the same time.  He turned to her and explained himself,  "I do not have other forms naturally.   Kinda.  I have a couple little magical trinkets that can change my form.  But otherwise, the only change I ever go through is size, after reformation.  So...   Lord Bitsa, do you mean to have me killed for this?!"