Having braved the gauntlet of claws in that claustrophobic cavern, we again emerged into more spacious climes, bearing renewed witness to the immense and myriad complexities of this still unfolding alien anatomy. Perched amidst a flayed muscular drapery hung the throbbing circumference of gargantuan organs - each of which seemed to rasp with a spasm of undulations, struggling to maintain their function amidst an irrupting cancerous violation.

We felt it too, more than a vicarious sympathy- it was as though the infection was within us, and our reactions in turn were manifest in it. As our own innards coiled in repulsion, the strange vistas of our surroundings resounded in bellowing protest. Malformed spines of brittle bone erupted through the fleshy walls in jagged swathes as whole sections of sinew tore, shuddered and restitched in sickening waves of surgical grotesquery.