Yorda still looked perplexed, but also utterly horrified by this revelation.

"But... that does not make sense. Why?"

As much as she hated it, she could understand why the horned children were brought to the castle. It wasn't like the people bringing them had much choice - one child or the whole village. Painful and horrible as it was to consider, she could understand. But to kill for land? Or simply because they could? What was the sense in that?