"Yes. It is. I would have been killed long before now without it."

He rubbed at his hand with the other, watching Amery warily. Like one might watch a tiger in a cage with them. He was only a couple feet away now that he had shifted, but he made no move closer or farther.

"I thought it would, likely, be easier for me to teach you with this form, than my own That and people have a tendency to feel more at ease when I am not towering over them.