Pa told Ma the woods were dangerous.
Pa told Ma the woods were home to all manner of sinister things.
Pa told Ma the woods was where all those creatures from her nightmares went to crawl and writhe when they weren't tormenting her.
Beasts that would hunt relentlessly, without sleep or food, until they caught her.
Magics and demons and those who looked like men but were definitely not men—
That and more were waiting within the trees.
And two days after they were married, Pa told Ma they were going to live in the woods.