He almost couldn’t stand to look at Jay’s face, preferring to lower his eyes instead.

“Sir, the cannibals have been slowly taking our people for years, but they preferred to attack other villages, since we, the leaf-skin, were their only trading partners and had the best defences.

Of all the villages, our leaf-skin village is the only one which the cannibals didn’t attack willingly. It was much easier to hunt other villages.”