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"While Nickie and Devon," She gestured to the two of us."were here in town, our Anikitos arranged for them to meet the non-shifter.He's a tour boat operator, so it was fairly simple, he just scheduled them to take a tour.During the tour, Nickie determined that he may be able to be shifted.What we'd like now is your permission to make the offer to him.He's been in the area for a while and has an established business, if he chooses to shift, he'll likely stay in your territory."
"All right."The Anikitos said."I'm confused.Non-shifters don't shift.That's why they're called non-shifters."
"That was true, until now."Alexis said.
"What do you mean?"he asked
"Have you heard Nickie's story?That she's only recently discovered she's a Kitsune and about our world?"Alexis seemed to change the subject.
"She said she only recently found out she's a shifter, and she's still learning the culture, was she a non-shifter?"He looked confused.
"No," Alexis shook her head, "but she has a unique set of talents."
"Oh?"He seemed intrigued.
"Nickie has the ability to call animal forms."Alexis started.
"That's uncommon but not rare, we have three in our pack."The Anikitos said.
"Counting Nickie, we have two and I'm the other but that's not what makes her unique.It's that ability, in combination with her ability to sense power."
"Sense power?"He asked."I've never heard of that."
"Apparently, it's pretty uncommon or those who have it don't know what it is."Alexis explained."Nickie figured it out, because my mate has the same ability and has figured out some of it.Until Nickie, he'd never encountered anyone else with the same talent."
"So how does this make her able to shift a non-shifter?"
"Because with her ability to sense power, she's able to feel their wolves before they've shifted."She took a breath and let it out letting him process the information."But that's only part of it.She can call the animal form, because she can sense it, although the one we've done so far had something else, some kind of block keeping him from shifting.That's where I came in, I'm a healer, I was able to fix the block, so that she could call the animal form."
"So you've only ever done this once?"He looked back and forth between Alexis and me.I nodded and he continued."How did the person shifted, handle it?"
"Quite well, actually.You see, Nickie won't even try if the non-shifter doesn't want to, and we don't allow them to be pressured into it."
The Anikitos nodded."The one you've shifted, how are they doing now?"
"He's doing well, much of his life is still the same.He has the same job, lives in the same place."
"What about the pack?How did they take it?"
"They've taken it pretty well, it probably helped that he'd grown up in the area, but being male, he could have just moved to the area.He's only been able to shift for a couple of months, and he's already managed to qualify as an enforcer."
The Anikitos eyebrows shot up at this, clearly surprised.
"Bill trusts him that much?"
"He does."Alexis said, "Plus the new shifter had another reason for qualifying."
"What was that?"
"He wasn't willing to let another male travel with his unsealed mate and we have no female enforcers right now."Alexis said bluntly.
"Why did she have to travel?"
"To come check out your non-shifter."I met his eyes when I spoke, trying to gauge his reaction.
"You're the mate?"He asked, his eyes leaping from me to Devon who still stood behind us."You're the new shifter?"
Devon nodded."I am."
