They Poured Fire on Us From The Sky

In the Chapter, The Lionesses revenge, Benson and his Dad are walking through the yard when Benson sees gleaming eye in the bushes. His father tells him it is a lion and that is why his father holds him close whenever they walk through the yard. He gets nightmares that night thinking about all the creatures that live right outside his house that would kill him.
A few days later he is told by his father that the war in the North is moving down to the location of their villages. He and his four year old brother get very scared even when they are confused about what will happen. He couldn't even believe that his father would say such things to young children.