The Tuunbaq, deprived of its monstrous spirit form but still monstrous in essence, soon changed form—as all tupilek do—into the most terrible living thing it could find on Earth. It chose the shape and substance of the smartest, stealthiest, most deadly predator on Earth—the white northern bear—but was to the bear in size and cunning as a bear itself is to one of the dogs of the Real People.
