The next time you visit the octopodes at your local aquarium or scientific research center, heed the brightly-colored warning signs prohibiting eye contact. These signs are for your protection, not the animals’.
While all Cephalopods can read minds, only the octopus is capable of implanting false memories. Children and pregnant women should never be left alone within eyesight of an octopus.
Should a captive octopus turn one of its horrible goat-like eyes on you, remember that it cannot harm you. All enclosures have been ritually sealed by scientist-priests. The cold waves of melancholy and disgust you may feel are a natural reaction as the octopus casually visualizes the exact circumstances of your death.
