"Well, there's the Pine Devil. It lurks in the woods at night and it tries to eat people. Tried to eat me once, but I got rescued." (That's the reason that Eddie won't go out to check his traps if the sun is already setting.) "It kind of looks like a deer, but with carnivore teeth. It's bipedal and has wings."

Eddie sighs. He paces himself as he speaks, simply because there's a lot of information to convey:

"The locals of Pumpkin Hollow have basically been the playthings for a group of demons, going on five years before any of us outsiders started showing up. The king of demons and his three sons are the big ones, but there are minor demons, monsters, ghosts... basically anything they can throw at us to make trouble.

"Every month or two, they make a big move... and we have to deal with that while trying to figure out how to bring down the barrier that surrounds the island so that people can go free."

The little chicks continue to mill around and play, heedless of the heavy topic of conversation. Elsewhere on the farm, one of the hired hands is humming to himself as he builds a crate, faintly audible to Eddie and Ava. And the two horses can be heard running around in the pasture. Life goes on, despite everything.