"I don't think so," says Matilda. "Because when you have a form it's not just a species, it exists somewhere, right? You can tuck things away with it and dye its hair and stuff. So either I can get those exact ones back just like you had them and I don't need to know what they were, or I can't and you might as well learn them over again."

She contemplates dragon shapeshifting. She wonders where all those forms actually go.