It may sound like a story to you, but it's real life to me.

[He knows his life has always been a bit like something out of a fairy tale, though, so he doesn't mind her saying so; he did grow up with a whole village of people that most humans can't even see.]

Malevolence is...it's hard to explain, but if someone does a lot of bad things and they know what they've been doing is wrong, it breeds malevolence inside of them and they can turn into monsters we call hellions. --It doesn't seem like it happens here though, so there's no need to worry about it!