Well, let's be real, given how many things were possible in a universe of infinite other universes, some monster eating people and stealing their voices wasn't all that weird a conclusion to jump to.

But fortunately, yeah, that wasn't the case.

And as if to prove that she still had a sense of humor even when shoved out of the closet (the monster kind of closet, not the gay closet) in front of someone, the bird creature looked Maurice dead in the eye and said "Yes. It's true. I'm a giant chicken."