[Confusion. And his words are quiet, rapid-fire, and a little panicked.]

We all d-

Was that not in the books I read? Is that something we had before we went mostly extinct?! Am I supposed to have wings?

Do you know? [The head turn makes it clear the question is directed at the bird who...shrugs. It actually shrugs albeit in a very birdy way. And twits out a short reply that seems possibly a negative.]

[This situation is extra confusing by virtue of the fact Hunter is the last Grimwalker left as far as he knows. The secret to making them had been gathered by Belos and locked away. And they'd likely long since been gone by the time he even found it, provided Belos hadn't discovered one of them as some sad, last remnant. But if there was a living Grimwalker, it had to be gone now, just like the only remaining basilisks are the ones Belos made.]

[He doesn't know what's normal and that means he doesn't know what's not normal. He doesn't know what shape Grimwalkers took when so much has been relegated to legend and what's presently here is so...artificially shaped. Him-shaped. Caleb-shaped. An imitation.]

Also, why are you using the word 'homunculus'? That was always a very technical term in the books I read, but everyone else usually used "Grimwalker" since homunculus could also reference other artificially created beings or constructs -

[Oh. Oh no. Something just occurred to him.]

- you are a Grimwalker, right? From the Boiling Isles?

[How many coincidences could there be if it was some otherdimensional stranger not even from the same world?]