"I guess we do actually need to if we don't, say, sleep," he says with a shrug. "Have you ever seen a spirit sleeping? Maybe they do need to eat?"

Or maybe they just don't need any of it. It seems likely to him that the forest spirits are so far gone they don't even need to pretend to do the things that would sustain life. Truly eating for pleasure only, along with... the other things they seem to find entertaining. The club had been eye-opening the first time he poked his head inside.