Would you?

[ They'd been living under the shadow of the Sound Eaters for generations now, watching strangers come into their community without those same worries, without the constant threat of death. ]

We don't know why they kill, only how they hunt. Who's to say it's only the death that matters?

You didn't think it was odd, how the new one was formed?

[ Born doesn't seem the right word for what they witnessed. ]