This is unusual - typically, there's far less, and Monsters must take their magic from a Witch Bond. I know it seems odd, but that is... simply how this dream works. Would that it was any different - gods know I'm not the biggest fan of Bonding.

[As for the other... well, Maria doesn't like to think of it that way, but there's really only one thing to say:]

... The fae would be right. Fighting the changes will slow them down, but has the... unfortunate effect of a great mental toll. Sometimes to the point of... going feral. Which, in Monsters, looks a lot like a Beast: Killing indiscriminately and horrifically. The one difference being that you can come back from being feral. It is not a permanent thing, but, to awaken after having done such a thing...

[She trails off about it. It would be abject horror.]