"People can still be old souls," Vyng points out. "I've met a few folks like that here."

Mako. Shiro. Oscar himself, albeit for different reasons.

He's not surprised Oscar hasn't heard of his brand of shapeshifting. Most Sleepers assume it's transmutation magic — as if Vyng could change himself into fire, simply because he wills it. But the truth is more complex than that.

"Well, how does your owl stuff work?" he asks. "It might be easier to explain if we've got something to compare my spirit stuff to."