I was dazed and amazed as Mr. Croft handed me Janet's liver,
her kidneys, spleen, pancreas and so on. I was numbly handing
them on to Nurse Croft. When he had finished with the organs, he
started unspooling Janet's intestines. In the back of my mind I
could see why he did not want her to eat that day.
He handed me a skien of intestine and asked me to hold it, he
got Janet to hold the other end. With a slash Mr. Croft cut
Janet's intestine almost exactly half way between mine and
Janet's hands. He stuck the scalpel in Janet's thigh and
collected the cut ends of intestine and quickly tied a knot. The
severed end stuck out of the knot. He pulled the knot to my end
of the length of intestine and then pushed it down to Janet's
end. Having returned the knot to the middle, he covered the knot
with his hand, squeezed and opened his hand and all evidence of
the cut or the knot had vanished.
He swiftly removed all Janet's guts and handed them to me
telling me to coil them neatly. While I looped the intestines,
Janet was encouraged to put her hands in her belly. She looked
quite shocked but excited by what had happened to her. Later she
told me that being able to feel the front of her own backbone was
a weird sensation.
While Janet was discovering she was temporarily gut-less,
Nurse Croft handed Mr. Croft a small medical power-saw, before
taking Janet's viscera from me.
When Mr. Croft switched on the saw even the observers fell
silent. He applied the saw to Janet's ribs and in short order
there was a groove around her chest. I lifted the front half of
Janet's ribs from her body as instructed and passed them to Nurse
Croft.
Under the ribs were the stomach, the lungs, still breathing,
and Janet's beating heart. Mr. Croft rapidly removed and handed to
me Janet's stomach, which I handed on to Nurse Croft.
Mr. Croft cut Janet's wind-pipe and took out her lungs. He
inflated them like a balloon and accepted a clamp from Nurse
Croft to hold the air in. He then took a long needle, which he
pressed against the over inflated lungs. I braced myself for a
loud bang, which did not come. The needle passed through the
lungs with no effect. Mr. Croft withdrew the needle and released
the clamp. There was a slight farting noise as the air escaped
from Janet's trachea.