A spirit that dresses as an animal.
That doesn't leave this room.

"She would not say." Alex would probably be able to guess that he means the woman whose picture she saw. "Such things in her culture are sacred, so I can only guess from the what little she did tell us. It was ... it looked like a polar bear, but bigger than any bear that has ever lived, and its eyes—it had eyes like a man's." He closes his own eyes briefly, remembering the glimpses he got of it. What it did. "She called it Tuunbaq. I think it was ... bound to her father, a shaman, but when he died, she was unable to control it. She tried." Dear God, how she had tried. He passed a hand over his eyes. "But she could not."