"What, the whole monster deal?" Ed chuckles and shrugs. "One of the gods in the last world I was in has been kidnapping people from other worlds to turn into it's unwilling servants. Snatched us up, infected us with some thing or other, and after a month living there we turn into cannibalistic freaks."

He frowns and scratches the back of his neck--god, it itches like hell when it's growing in back there! "Everyone is a little different, but there were some broad ways that we could categorize people. Mers, kelpies, gargoyles...fuckin nymphs, too." Forever salty, this one.