As he stumbled blindly, Nino pulled the tubes from her own mouth with a sickening, wet pop. She untied Lukas, then Mehmet. The three of them, barely human, crawled and limped out into the snowy Svaneti night.
"Welcome to the middle," he said in Georgian, his voice gentle as a priest’s. Then he switched to broken English for the others: "You are now one. Front eats. Middle receives. End… completes the cycle. Like a holy worm." the human centipede qartulad
Nino understood. She tried to vomit, but her stomach was empty. A soft, wet gurgle came from Lukas’s throat. He was crying silently, his tears dripping onto the rusted table. As he stumbled blindly, Nino pulled the tubes
He walked to Nino. With a gloved finger, he traced the tube entering her mouth. "You are the front, Nino. The beginning. You will eat for all three. And when you cannot eat…" He smiled. "I have a puree." "Welcome to the middle," he said in Georgian,