Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values, "sense data". Then, take your result, square it, and feed it back into your original function, adding a new set of sense data. Continue to feed your results back into the original function ad infinitum. What do you have? The...
@SOL_rocks Don't worry, either the children will magically disappear and be exempted from being killed or they will somehow turn out to be absolute evil in the most comical ways.
I'm not excluding a "Scott Tenorman Must Die" plot either.
@Doomer There's also the fact that they lost any capacity for reason, they could just have destroyed the wooden doors to drink water and probably the blood of villagers in the process.