[Both the stew and mead are steaming, exactly as Ilai prefers them, but the current conversation has more of his attention.]

I have never heard such a term before, although of your...apparent features, I would assume it is some form of shapeshifter? They carry the ability to move between human and beast forms and a range of in between.

Centauri do not interact as much with the shifter clans, their regions are much further west than I have traveled.