Wallie nods. It is different from his own experience, he suspects; it sounds like this Huntress has far more presence than Shonsu does, but if she was something else, something more than human, maybe that's not surprising.

"I've been Shonsu for about a year now. For the most part, I can say I've been myself, with differences, but there was a time when Jja -- my wife, although she wasn't then -- when Jja wanted nothing to do with me. She could see me becoming Shonsu, and frankly, Shonsu was no gentleman."

Which was a polite way of saying he'd been a murderer and probably a rapist. And Jja had been, technically, his slave, and bound to accept his advances regardless. It had been... pretty awful.

"I can... I can understand, a little. It wasn't the same, but I can understand."