It just goes primarily after kids because it’s easier to drive them to terror (adult fears are more complex)
They weakened it, and did something that changed how it can interact with them by transitioning to a different state. Unifying, just like with the fight, as a way to overcome the power. That’s why they remember the way out after the act. Which shows that it was literally a way for them to escape the power, at least temporarily.
Except It eats adults. It just goes primarily after kids because it’s easier to drive them to terror (adult fears are more complex)
Becoming adults won’t give them an escspe from Its predations - the whole adults storythread wouldn’t exist if it did.
They weakened it, and did something that changed how it can interact with them by transitioning to a different state. Unifying, just like with the fight, as a way to overcome the power. That’s why they remember the way out after the act. Which shows that it was literally a way for them to escape the power, at least temporarily.