"What's going on?" Lenne called, hearing a loud roar from the garden where Shuyin had been playing with Yu, Lenne's alsation puppy. She grabbed her staff from where it stood in the corner of the kitchen and rushed outside when she heard a gunshot.

Shuyin was standing over the body of a fiend, glaring daggers at the dead monster.

"It decided to have Yu as a mid-morning snack," Shuyin said.

"I know I said I wanted a tour of where you live," Lenne said teasingly, "but I didn't want quite such a detailed experience of the local wildlife!"