I wanted to capture it.

[ He answers quickly, truly wondering if anyone else is thinking the same way he is in regards to the strange creatures that come at night. ]

I want to know more about them. They're mutated in some way — like something's been done to them. I think the beasts and the missing bodies could be connected some way... or with the illness people in town speak of, even. They could be the source of it, similar to many strains of the flu.

[ He gestures a hand to the forest around them. ]

Don't you find anything about them odd?