Chapter 34

The octopuses completed the screening Valor asked for within a week. Hunters were either relocated, given more team members or reassigned completely. They sent a formal request to the government, urging them to improve communication systems in remote areas. Once Ferdinand shared the horrors of Catrine Carter’s death, the motion to see through the hunters’ request received a unanimous vote.

There was some noise made by a member of the opposition party, a young woman named Joyce Clearwater, who promptly reminded the house that her party had made those recommendations several times before but was brushed aside by the leading party, using this opportunity to argue that the leading party would never take precautions seriously until the people suffered “in the most tragic manner”. Despite the slurs that went on for a few minutes after that, the result was the same - improve