EXPLANATORY NOTE: This chapter contains hints of sexuality, explicit violence, and sensitive (religious) themes for some adults.
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John feels there's no need to push himself from now on.
Clive has seemed somewhat pleasant, trying to make the meal somewhat enjoyable, as if trying to gain her trust.
This side of the agent strikes her as somewhat odd; she always saw him as older than he is now, as she observes him closely.
He doesn't seem older than John himself; however, the position he holds denotes a wealth of experience to have earned him that status.
John begins to wonder; perhaps he can't be that bad. In one of the houses where some of the victims were found, in the cordoned-off area, Agent Brown enters.
She meets the case manager and assesses the situation.
The victim was in the bathroom of her home, taking a shower.
She has bruises on her forearms; finger marks suggest she was forcibly restrained while being placed in the bathtub.
There are bruises on her legs, as well as deep finger marks around her neck.
Bruises on her nipples, which were bitten with great force, to the point of having small cuts caused by teeth.
Both buttocks are colored from having been beaten repeatedly.
The force exerted caused a fractured neck, but she did not die from it.
The cause was asphyxiation on her own blood.
The joints in her arms, legs, and the areas connected to her torso, i.e., her hips and shoulders, have also been dislocated.