The more I hear about these newer things on the campus, the more it shows that inhuman does not mean unstoppable, or immortal. Most of the things on the campground, they were OLD things, things you couldn't fight, so you accommodate them out of necessity. But these new things, they're much more ephemeral - you've literally beaten one of these things to death with a backpack loaded with a dumbbell. You defied the underwear folder, and if anything, you're now the only human she respects. You killed the murder-eyeball. You told the Treefrog to stop, and it did.

My point is, these things are going to be realizing that they need to be scared of YOU. And it's going to be more dangerous for you to go around pretending that isn't the case, because they aren't going to like being prey. I know it might not feel like it, when so many of them can end a human life in an instant, but that's part of it - they're used to HUMAN lives being fleeting, not their own. There's no ducking out of the way and hoping to slip by unnoticed now. It's far too late for that. Survival means leaning in - legacy has power - just being the one that kills the things that go bump in the night makes you more empowered to stop them.