"I left a message for the head zookeeper just in case," Dembski said. "If it's a lion we'll know soon."<br/><br/>"Dembski, I've known you long enough to know when you're having doubts," Tom said. "What's wrong?"<br/><br/>"Let's just assume we have a lion with monster claws loose in the forest," Dembski said with a sigh. "We have three girls found dead in the same forest, months apart, with the same wounds. If there was a lion running around for that long either someone would've seen it or the zoo would've tipped you off it keeps breaking loose. And then there's the footprints."<br/><br/>"Wait, the WHAT?" Tom said, turning around just as he had been about to speak to Faith.<br/><br/>"These," the pathologist said, putting up another photograph. It showed ground around the body with large footprints which looked almost human...except for the presence of claws where the toes should be. "They've been found at every murder location, it's only now I realised there were scratch marks I've thought they might be important."