Neve nods towards one of the armless, stumbling creatures further down the street. It doesn't seem to have noticed them yet, and she's content to keep it that way.

"Maybe that happened to them," she guesses. "What's to say they didn't somehow change into the creatures we've been seeing? I suppose city records might reveal that, if we can find any."

And that's if the creatures themselves didn't appear as suddenly as Neve arrived to Darrow Proper, and just ate or killed the citizens of this Second Darrow.