A big vat-like construction with tubes leading in and out. A stomach. A long, flexible tube, segmented in places by thick elastic rings that looked like they could be used to crush the tube’s contents. An esophagus. Coil after coil of endless hose that looked exactly like a heap of intestines. “Oh God,” Petrova said again. “Oh God.” “More or less,” Eurydice said. “Demigod, maybe. There’s a reason you humans give us names out of mythology, after all.”
