Maggie is not her real name, but it will do for the story's sake. She lives on a small farm that butts right up to a national forest somewhere in the South. She can't say where for her own protection as well as that of her neighbors. Her story starts with her chickens, which were being taken one by one. That and some weird things like a stench in the air, strange footprints in her garden, and a call from the woods unlike any bird she'd ever heard. Then she saw it, and later them. That's when her life changed forever.