"Lord, no." The horror of it washed over Sam. Kawaru ... the Change, as the Japanese so politely named it. Goblinization was the word that the English-speaking world used for the process that distorted and restructured an ordinary person’s organs and bones into one of the metahuman sub-species known as Orks or Trolls. Occasionally, the unfortunate victim was warped into something far worse. "How can it be? She’s seventeen. If she were going to change, it would have happened before. She was safe."