[Jack nods, and continues his approach, slowly, hands up to show they're empty. He offers,]

It may be temporary, if it happened all of a sudden. I turned into a fox for the span of the storm-- it was very inconvenient to not have thumbs.

[Of course, a six-tailed fox was not as... dramatic... as an undead deer thing. Still:]

Others have had temporary transformations, too. I managed to talk a few of them back into human form. Or human-ish form.