Change.
Change is unpredictable, isn't it? All that you've come to know prior to that one moment suddenly becomes irrelevant, it's like being thrown onto a path where the directions are vague and you have to figure things out all over again and re-learn from scratch if you wish to make it through.
Kai despised such changes, having experienced them when he was barely seven. A storm came out of nowhere, wreaking havoc, leaving him dealing with unfathomable damage. He would have died a miserable death if the Alpha of the Cherokee tribe hadn't rescued him, offering Kai a second chance at life. That one event had altered his life entirely; life that had been nothing but peaceful.