Max had initially thought something may be up when Katya spoke. Something had seemed off, but he didn't have much choice but to go along with it, seeing as it was a choice between starvation and whatever lay before him, but he never could have fathomed this. He looked around in a mixture of shock and awe at Melliae's Court, unable to speak. Things definitely took a turn for the worst when both Katya and Melliae removed their Glimmers, showing that in reality, they were some terrifying tree people

	"What are you?" He whispered, backing away from them, contemplating running far, far away and never coming back. "What are they? Where the heck are we?" He asked, feeling more scared of them than of the previous threat of starvation. What were they going to do to him? Eat him? Enslave him? Or something far worse than he could even imagine? Max decided he wouldn't stick around to find out, and, turning on the spot, he started to run away, and was soon out of the front of the village, only for him to find himself soon running back into it. He now froze, terrified that he was somehow back where he had just run from, "What's going on?" He managed to get out, before collapsing onto the his knees, the shock finally hitting him completely.