Is there anything she didn't say last night because Nausicaa was there?

"I can tell you some about how certain monsters come into being and into their endings," the Crone does say. "It's not pleasant for children to hear, though I think Nausicaa suspects a good amount of it."

"More information is good."

"I'll explain the wendigo first, how about, since you've befriended one?"

"Sounds good."

"To my knowledge, wendigos come about when humans die, having consumed the flesh of other humans recently - how recently seems to vary. Starving to death makes the transformation more likely. Wendigos are obligate cannibals; they can only eat humans and other wendigos."

"That... explains some things."

"About the wendigo you met?"

"Yes. Do you know if Nausicaa's friend Sue ever had an older sibling?"

"Yes. An older sister, who died due to a plane crash. The details were hushed up, but it is possible some people survived the initial crash - it occurred in the mountains, and it took over a month for them to find the wreck."

"That sounds like the sort of circumstance that would produce a wendigo."

"Might be the source of the large numbers we've been having lately... There was something odd about the crash, too, but I'd have to investigate that..."

"What sort of odd?"

"It's an unusual place, and there was an unseasonal snowstorm involved... And it's unusual that it took so long for the crash to be discovered. Long enough no one was alive."

"In the complete absence of other evidence... That sounds like a conspiracy."

"Could be. Or something singular and powerful that was interfering."

"Trouble though, either way."

"I'll have to do some digging to find out what's going on..." She shakes her head. "But, yes, trouble."

"What about, uh, angels?"

"They were created by some god long ago, I think, to destroy the creations of a different god. They're rare, since the gods were locked out, and have drifted a good bit. Did you run into one?"

"Maybe? It looked like a glass tornado with eyes. Nausicaa mentioned one of her friends had an angel."

" - They sometimes look like that, yes. And... What else did Nausicaa mention about her friends and monsters?"

"Ah... There's a vampire and a werewolf who are teachers at the school. One of the girls, Kendra, has 'something spooky in her head', though I didn't have the chance to meet her."

"Odd. Vampires and werewolves usually keep to themselves somewhat. And something living in a child's head... I don't like the sound of that."

"Well, given how things have been going so far, I wouldn't say there's no space for hope."