The vision of the two corpses returns, though now The Beast’s focus shifts to just one of the corpses, still pacing about. The figure stops its jaw moving lips peaked back as if it is talking to the other. Anna realize that one of its sockets is filled with a dark, glossy wriggling mass. The thing in the socket is alive, shifting and squirming till it finally crawls out of the eye hole, a fully formed and very plump brown rat. Its tail comes out last, squiggling like a worm, pink and plump. The rodent crawls down the rotting flesh of the man’s face before stopping at its chin. Tiny claws dig furrows into bloodless yellowed flesh. The rat lifts its head, beady black eyes staring directly at Anna as its lips curl back to hiss.

(One ghoul, clinging close to its master)