[So... they were like birds. Or at least that was what Walter gathered from the words on the page. Why else describe something as flightless?]

So your hammerbeaks are dangerous, too. But still, there wasn't anything odd about the deer meat, was there? I heard the last time around that some of the monsters used to be people, but I've no clue if the deer are as they originally were or if they were something else before.

Contagious monsters are a [There's a short pause where he struggles for a suitable term to use, then opts to use the one above to save the time.] common hazard I've dealt with in the past.