A creature looking remarkably like a bat using a mushroom as an umbrella jumped out of the forest and alit on the edge of a log not six feet from Eugenia. "Who are you?" Eugenia asked. "I," said Poison Pie, "am Poison Pie, man of the mushroom people." "You look like a bat," said Eugenia. "Yes," admitted Poison Pie, "Today I feel a little batty."