"Monsters?  That's hard to believe.  Probably just some fancy costumes or prosthetics.  You can get buy anything  if you know where to go."  she laughed, but it sounded uneasy to her ears.  She knew the stories, of course.  Who hadn't?   People who had taken their fetish, obsessions, whatever, into a realm so extreme that they'd lost their humanity.  Publicly the Commissioner had dismissed such stories.  Things were bad enough in the city without getting people all worked up over rumors of these inhuman hybrids.  Even among those on the force, little was known.  If this was truly what was going on here...<br/><br/>She leaned back, sorting through her thoughts, wishing for silence for now.  This could turn into an important job, if it was true, one that might take her places.  Certainly out of the beat room.  Sergeant, captain eventually?  It was where her sights were set.  She considered it, the hint of a smile on her face, forgetting for a moment, the disgusting lump of flesh that piloted her cab.