"Demon evil dark energy beams...or petrification..."

Steve is suddenly glad that the demodogs and stuff would only eat him, now. Painful, sure, but you'd just bleed out, go unconscious, and that's it. Being turned to rock or whatever seemed like it would be pretty awful compared to that.

"Some places have big animals," he feels like he has to point out. "Africa has giraffes and elephants. I saw those at the zoo once and they're pretty huge. Moose? Also huge. Saw one when I was in Canada as a kid. Oh!" He snaps. "Dinosaurs were enormous! We had dinosaurs like hundreds of thousands of years ago." Bit longer, pal.