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Elias only having a fleeting awareness of his original body, but he can feel something there. He can’t look in the panopticon from afar, so he has to rush into the tunnels. Feeling pressure against his limbs as though something is crawling on top of him, or holding him down. Half-stumbling to the stairs as the feelings continue, hoping he can reach his body in time to eliminate the threat.

Getting to the top of the stairs only to find some almost snakelike thing wrapped around his other body, almost hiding it from view. Wings that flutter constant covered in patterns that at first he thinks look like eyes, only to see them shift and realize that don’t just look like eyes. Extra arms folding out pawing at his body as though trying to get it to do something, cocking its head like a confused bird of prey, Elias feeling absolute terror at seeing how massive this things teeth and claws are as it pokes at him, reaching for a gun that would do nothing.

Only to have the monster chirp with a sound like a tape recorder clicking and practically throw itself on him long tongue swiping over his face. Hearing a loud thump and realizing this awful terrifying monster is wagging its tail like an overgrown retriever as he is held tight by both the things coiled body and extra arms.

Hearing the hiss and whir of a tape recorder repeating an affectionate Jonah like a record skipping.