[He never thought he'd think this about Ivan, but it's nice to hear some of the right questions asked, for once.]

Are the Malnosso, and I think it varies with them as well. I haven't run into anyone in the village with any sort of mastery over the shifts, but I was in the last draft that went out, so I saw them used by the Third Party. They're...hard to explain scientifically, but I'm no scientist.