roots of a plant, yes, like a kind of circulatory system. He pointed to the swollen, turgid tissue around those mycelial threads: “This looks like inflammation.” “Yeah, it created an intense inflammatory response. And scarring.” And that would only happen if Garlin were alive. Meaning, it did not happen postmortem. This was officially a fungal infection. “I think Garlin was infected for months,” she said.
