"They've taken things from people's homes in the past. I still remember the creature that was like the Demon Bear from my world." Maybe this was something like that? She frowned and sighed. "Had to? So it was a compulsion to tell that story..." How weird. "Then this place must have summoned or created them based on that. But why?" It was a question more to herself than to him. Why would anyone want to force people to tell stories and then make them real?

"Which is almost everything." If he wasn't going to say it, she was. "Then at least they won't be worse influences on them." Could anything really make one of the imps worse? If anything they might be a terrible influence on the poor nomes. All she could hope was that Dummruut wasn't trying to teach the nomes how to destroy things. Or how to make things, which would be about the same as destroy for them.

"Snacks! That's probably exactly where they've gone, to get food." Curse them. "Do you want to come look for them with me?"