At the same time, they've always known the system existed. Everyone in these lands knows that Findings exist. Snakes and birds have several eggs each laying season, and plenty other animals also have several children if they're preyed upon. At least in this case it's with the idea of the taken human becoming one of them, and not automatically being taken as food.

[ Sadly, only a small portion of this was accepting and adapting to the lessons that were being taught these two seasons. It wasn't that Eden lacked empathy, not at all. It just made sense, in the way all other systems in nature had their own fallacies, and she wasn't attached to humans as something specific. Nature wasn't exactly kind. ]

Everyone in my court was anywhere between annoyed and upset, but we're the ones that take care of them. Sadly, every Court seems to be allowed to hold power over a season however they want. Even still, I don't think it's right to paint every single person of a species as anything.