Disguise
And you can’t really join them in the fields. At least not appearing as a kitsune, you can’t -- the humans will treat you like some kind of god, and that’s not what you want -- and you can’t be human, at least not entirely. Even if you could, it’s a small town; everybody knows everybody else, so whether you impersonate a villager (and risk revealing your imposture by screwing up on something they’d know and you don’t), or show up as a stranger (in which case the villagers will probably clam up around you), it won’t help...
Of course: You can change your body -- turn into a perfectly normal four-legged fox. Okay, a perfectly normal four-legged fox with three tails, but you can hide the extras with a glamour. And the villagers like foxes, don’t they?
You duck behind a building and after checking you shift into a feral form. Or at least you try but like assuming human form you find yourself not able to do a full shift. Your instincts are telling you that is should be possible to go fully fox but something is stopping you from doing so.
Written by Catprog & Cubist on 07 February 2011
