Rex felt like he was back in the Guardian Panther's Domain as they sat in the clearing.
Hassan held his hands out before them, spinning life and intricate shapes into the pool of solar-sand churning between them.
"Today, I will give you a history lesson. As it was told to me." Hassan explained, "The Beast-Totems were once far more individualized. For many generations, each Awakener, awakened as their own breed. But it became too much. It became…. dangerous as they sired children and came into contact with relatives of the past breeds…."
In the sands Hassan controlled, he molded shapes of men and women awakening beastial appendages and malformed transformations while others burst into flame or collapsed as sand.
Hassan continued, "In an event called The Great Joining, our feline gods followed in the footsteps of the wolves and formed a pack. One great totem. Where the essence of us all could thrive and be digested and evolved in one user."
