Editing Character:Justin Osceola (section)

=== Rising Conflict ===
When he was 15, Justin's Granddad died. At first, he was taken in by his maternal uncle, Joseph Osceola, in the Brighton Reservation. Joseph was a stern, demanding taskmaster, with little time for Justin's teenage rebellion. Justin soon ran away. He got his first inkling that Uncle Joe was more than just a strict disciplinarian that night, camping rough in the swamp. Justin had seen a pair of green eyes gleaming across the clearing, and had frozen. Then, in a rush of tawny fur and a snarl, an enormous cougar had sprinted across the clearing, knocking him down and baring its fangs. Justin thought he was going to die right then - when the cougar suddenly shifted into his uncle, kneeling on his chest. His uncle let him up, warning him that if he tried to run off again, it wouldn't end with just a scare, but if had the discipline, he could learn how to do the same. Over the next three years, Uncle Joe taught Justin the trick of shapeshifting, not to mention a bunch of other useful skills - surviving in the wilderness, hunting, scaring people, and so forth. Joseph wanted Justin to take up the "family business" of defending the reservation. However, his uncle's severe attitude had soured Justin on the idea of doing anything to help him. When he turned 19, and had learned all the shapeshifting tricks his uncle seemed likely to teach, Justin told Joseph it was time to WALK HIS OWN PATH, and left for Miami, the big city.