"I am starting to think that the things that are happening to us cannot be ascribed to mere coincidence or randomness. But I do not know who or what has this kind of power. Or how we can bargain our way out of this." He can't think of anything they would have that someone with this kind of ability would not easily be able to attain for themselves, or be willing to trade for.

"There aren't many other phenomena I can think of wherein food just appears every day. People kept in their pens. A few show up, a few go missing. We are like little farm animals." Only it is left to be seen who among them would be Napoleon the pig.