"That... sounds like somethin' I had back home." He lowered his hands, his curiosity sated, and stepped back.

"We had these things called Shadows. They took on all kinds'a forms, somethin' about peoples' thoughts changing 'em. When they got powerful, and somebody with a whole lot stewin' in their mind shows up, they change into that person, a 'reflection' of 'em, whatever they're really thinkin' but amped up a hundred times."