The wolf seems quietened, for now, and it's a few tense seconds that time passes and Daud seems to finally manage to breathe easier, even if he still moves stiffly. There doesn't seem to be much reaction, at first, yet as the ice melts on the wolf's fur, there's a slow, unmistakable change. It may not have been the effect Shura intended, but the wolf's fur begins to turn from red to grey-white, the color leaching out of it.

Then the wolf's body itself begins to shift and change, fur and muscle sloughing away to reveal ... a half-orc dragonborn. Bruised, battered, and riddled with the bony protrusions that were on the wolf, but unmistakably a female half-orc halfway in a nearly complete dragonborn transformation, looking at Billie and Shura with unfocused eyes as her true form reveals itself.

But they aren't alone in observing this happen. The barest movement catches Daud's attention out of the corner of his eye, and he barks a warning sharply, trusting Billie to understand what he means.

"Archer!"