"Do not recoil from me, stranger. I do not know what you're doing in my woods, but a price must be paid. One of your kind slew one of my kind not one day ago...no, I am unconcerned with whether you were responsible. You man-things cannot tell my children apart, so I see no reason why I should make efforts that your kind does not. Any man is as good as any other.
Yes, your form begins to shift already. Do not fear. I will help you adjust to your cervine life...I will walk with you, drink alongside you, breed with you, lead you from danger, until you are ready to brave these wilds alone. Now come..."