Talk:The Gristers/@comment-27628405-20160213195239/@comment-31736374-20170414015356

Really? I felt like it was at least a solid 8. The cat death made sense to me, since they were so angry that the person could see them. Why wouldn't they be angry about the cat seeing them? They couldn't immediately do anything about the human, because it's so much larger than most of them and mroe intelligent, but a house cat? Easy prey. Plus, they prey on fear-seeing your cat mutilated like that would definitely induce fear. The house finding made sense too, since without it we wouldn't have had evidence that the Gristers feed on fear (I don't think it's a coincidence that the obese Grister was near a place of great dread), and it gave us more witnesses to the Gristers. John's death adds fuel to the realness of the story, since "debateable" suicides happen all the time. It gives you real world evidence to a fictional story. I thought it was brilliant.