I like it!  I can answer back in-character, too. ^^<br/><br/>"I needed somewhere to sleep.  Sleeping in the wild requires an expenditure of mass and energy.  That means I would either need to sleep in the deep wilderness, which means attacking creatures, or sleep closer to a town and risk hurting innocents.  At least this way, it's happening to those who deserve to be hurt.<br/><br/>This is my usual form.  This is the form I held before I became a<em>monster</em>, as you so cleverly put it.  Rather, when I was a great heroine, and not this.  I've held on to those memories for better or for worse, so it's easier to maintain the form I had previously, even if it hurts to see myself like this."