The monster that had once been a patient turned out to be something snakelike. It was larger than Guy would have expected, and he tried not to think about how painful that transformation would have been. It took him a second to realize what the creature had just eaten, but once it sunk in that it was that girl's leg Guy felt like he'd been hit with a sack of bricks.

He thought back to that moment when he'd been five years old, the limbs of all those maids and of his sister reaching out over him to keep him safe, and almost felt like he was going to lose his footing for a moment. Claude and Anise's voices reached him, but as if they were calling to him from across a chasm.

Guy clenched his jaw, and swallowed, and shook his head to clear it. "I guess it had its fill," he said quietly as he took a few more tentative steps forward. They reached another door that was simply labeled "X-Ray," and Guy turned towards the others, nodding to it. "Looks like this is it." They'd made it, and yet he was too shocked by what they'd just seen to feel much of anything about it.