While at the club we all got on famously and one thing lead to another with both girls rubbing their heels & legs up & down our legs. On several occas...ons during the evening they would accidentally brush our crutches leading to feeling Michael & I up. I could see Michael was getting uncomfortable the same as me so I suggested we go back to my place. We hailed a cab and were home in no time. As we walked into my flat the girls were flinging their high heels off & carrying them in with them.They. More and more minds and bodies were added on to thehivemind as people started noticing the mass of purple tentaclesspreading across the place like a virus out of control.Parr Johnson was the adolescent woman working as the nude stripper whenshe noticed all this going on, seeing those infectious tentacles movingacross the ground and violating her customers. She took the hintimmediately and with an athletic leap, she booked it to the elevatordoors, the only way in and out of this place. She hit. The platoon had been inserted to follow the trail.For two hours they had cautiously followed the streaks of blood. Someone, probably more than one someone from the marks in the dusty soil of the trail, had been seriously hurt. They had found nothing else though. There had been no bodies, no weapons, no supplies.Taylor held his hand up in an alert signal. The entire platoon froze. Then "Get down" came from the point man and a burst of AK47 fire swept through the area.Even as the platoon reacted,. We hadn't dared peek at the fringe sites or the ones that featured what they said was cryptozoology - what Neeka called booger-science. This was just the sort of thing they'd use to justify any number of aliens-among-us conspiracy theories.Leonora gave me a look that I didn't want explained. Her comment might not be something any of us would be comfortable hearing."Not that I'm comparing myself to ... you know. It's just that people think they see things all the time. Next week it will be Elvis.