That's what Martel said too.

[Pieces of things spliced together, a horrifying facsimile of a chimera, even Nina had it better than that. Not by much.]

It has to be a lie, Martel could never have survived being brought here in pieces, and she-- she was already dead where I'm from. It wasn't her, I just know it.

[He has to believe that or he might go insane.]