[Miranda_]

"Are you sure you've got it right? Just that it sounds like you're automatically finding reasons to take a stranger's side against your friend's," said Rusty.

"Lupe would understand how it is in a renegade camp; she came from one. So did Crevan. Those were the names they were given by their parentswhen they were born; whereas the rest of us were given them by humans. Master sometimes gets renegades off the streets to train up as guards. He'll have you change to human shape so you can give him your name, then after that, you're not allowed to change unless he says you can."