Is... is this... it? Her eyes widened in shock.
It was... large. It was, she had to admit, far larger than she had pictured. The novels, she thought, her mind starting to whirl again, had been rather vague on the specifics of scale. This was... significant.
"Oh my!" she gasped.
It was a small, sharp, sound of shocked awe. Her hand, the one that had been resting on her chin, flew to her mouth, her fingers pressing against her lips.
Her gaze traveled up. And up.
"Does this... does this really go inside a body?" she asked. Her voice was a tiny, stunned, awestruck whisper. She wasn't asking him. She was asking the room.
Something this... this big, Ines? her mind added, her inner voice sounding a little faint. How? A baby's head, perhaps. That, I have heard, is difficult when it's coming out of there. But that? How is that even... possible?
