3 THE GROUP
Garret logged off his laptop as he reviewed what he knew about the latest murders. There were the odd but rational facts, and then, there were the bizarre bits, such as the fungus, the weird ritual involvement of the cephalopods, and the even stranger cellular growth of the cephalopod and human bodies in what seemed to be an eventual merger of the two.
April 8, 2019, Monday
The uniform that Garret had charged with the task of finding any potential dealers in octopi had reported that there were no dealers in that particular commodity found locally. It was not that far to the Texas or the Louisiana coasts. Theoretically, someone in the town could have acquired the cephalopods in a recent fishing expedition.
Of course, the question of why the octopi were associated with the ri
