The monster was picky!
When Tike was abducted, the juvenile ‘Harken’ spit out the half horse it had eaten.
Similarly, in the previous incidents where officers had gone missing or been killed, the person who served as Kultz’s ‘decoy’ must have been vomited up as well.
Alive ‘food’ was not eaten, yet it went for the dead?
Unless, ‘Harken’ was a scavenger.
And this was possible, but it needed confirmation.
But an even more crucial point, if the monstrous ‘Harken’ didn’t eat those bodies, then the remaining creatures kept by Kultz couldn’t have possibly left so little of the ‘missing corpses’!
The size of the ‘Tricksters’ and ‘Noose Hangers’ dictated their appetite.
Even in large numbers, they couldn’t consume hundreds of bodies in a short time.
Because, on Duke, Jason smelled the scent that belonged to…