"Monsters," Huaisang agrees, brow furrowing. "There were undead children and monster reindeer. The monsters ate the real reindeer, and I've heard they've still been sighted in the forest even now." He paused when she did, though he tugged her along soon to get her moving somewhere safer and more private.

"The basis, yes. The snowmen were made around them, and they were the trapped victims. My theory--my terror--is that... sometimes we can become them, the overly smiley ones. There's some kind of spell. I'm afraid they were all some of... us previously, and that they will be our fate."