"It is." There is a hint of a laugh in her voice.

Scott chooses this moment to arrive. 

"Lydia, are you okay?"

"Fine. No dead bodies here." 

"Actually, we should focus on other business, if you're doing alright. There are plenty of things to keep us busy now. The Nemeton waking up also had other effects, some of which we didn't plan for."

"She means we're expecting an influx of various supernatural persons."

"New ones, and the old ones are likely to be more active now. That was an expected result, but not a bad one, necessarily. It's the unknown visitors that are more of a potential problem."

"How many supernatural people live in this town?"

"More than ten, less than fifty. Anything more specific than that requires much more involvement and possibly active surveillance." 

"You should also be able to increase your own power with the Nemeton?"

"We can, which doesn't actually do much to solve the problem of handling a family of obligate cannibals. Even strengthened, our magic can't create human flesh." 

"Shouldn't we just trap them so they can't hurt people?"

"Starving them to death is what my brother wants to avoid. I think trapping them and spending the remainder of their lives trying to come with a solution to their hunger may be the best option."

"Why are there obligate cannibals. That seems like a serious design flaw, how does that even work?"

"To be clear, they have to eat people, not other wendigos." 

"Same principle. Is it just flesh or does it have to be actual people?"

"Flesh, but my point was that wendigos didn't evolve. They were created, and it's not a design flaw, it's a feature. They're the result of magic, like most supernatural creatures, though the ones around now are descendants of the ones that were directly created."

"Ellayania can produce a limited amount of food for them. But if magic created them in the first place, couldn't magic alter them?"

"It's possible. I'll find out how to do it." 

"Ms. Blake, you know as well as I do you're not going to find a solution that will satisfy anyone."

"We have access to a power source now. If we could make them sustain themselves using something else, that would do it. Just eliminating their hunger won't do it, though that will need to be a step..."

"We'll work on a solution. Does your acolyte want to help us brainstorm while you work on other things?"

"I have more than enough attention to spare, if you feel my input would be valuable."

"I don't think I'm completely useless." 

"We'll take all the help we can get. The problem with our magic is that effects can't be undone. If you have a person that changes shape and has an insatiable appetite and nutritional need for human flesh, solutions to that have to layer on top of the problem. We can try adding a layer to make them feel more satiated after a meal, for a example, or to sustain themselves directly through drinking blood, or eating bones, or eating primate flesh more generally. To actually transform them into something humans can co-exist with, there will have to be a series of steps."

"How far can you push the changes? You mentioned bones and blood, could you get them to eat fruit?"