People never expect to run into a talking animal, much less one that tells them the only reason they can understand each other is because they both have Inner Nature, a state of existence where a soul ended up in the wrong body. But, every now and then, it happens.
It doesn’t happen every day. After all, the talking animals used to be human too, and they can only communicate to people with an Inner Nature belonging to the same species. In other words, an Inner Nature canine can talk to prior humans that are now canines, but they can’t talk to natural dogs or prior humans belonging to a different species, like a cat.
Some people with Inner Nature go their whole lives without finding out the truth. By the same token, some prior humans live out the rest of their days as an animal without encountering a person with Inner Nature. This is important since a person with Inner Nature usually doesn’t learn about it until they cross paths with a prior human that senses the animal soul within.
For those lucky enough to meet, the person with Inner Nature can find out how to correct their soul misplacement and become the animal they were always meant to be.
There are several things to consider before transforming, though.
1) These transformations are often administered by a Bridger, a person with Inner Nature that guides and trains the prior human into their new life. By taking on this responsibility, Bridgers are granted the ability to change back and forth at will.
2) For everyone else, it’s a one way trip. After becoming their Inner Nature animal, they can never be human again and can’t communicate with or understand normal humans after the transformation is complete.
3) Even though instincts come with the transformation, allowing them to understand and communicate with members of their own species, prior humans also retain an extreme level of intelligence for their Inner Nature animal.
4) After their training period is over, prior humans who become domesticated animals are sold off (sometimes to arranged and respected owners, sometimes at random or at auction) to the profit of their Bridger. Their new owners, unaware of their once human existence, will treat them as common animals. Prior humans who become wild animals are released into their natural habitat to fend for themselves or sold to zoos.
5) A person’s age carries over proportionally with the transformation. A young person becomes a young animal, an elderly person becomes an elderly animal. Gender rarely changes in a transformation.
With this in mind, the decision to undergo the transformation shouldn’t be taken lightly. And even though they didn’t know it, it was a decision ___________ would be dealing with later today.