The great hall reminded him of the room where Alfrey had died and been dismembered, leaving blood and gore across the floor and walls. The alchemists had turned the great hall into something worse by a hundred fold. One corner held a pile of bodies rotting in their own fluids, and he could only assume some other spell kept back the stench. Arranged in two long columns were tables to which demons and even men had been strapped. The tables were in pairs: one demon, one man, and Koray realized with growing horror that part of the process to convert the demons to vessels involved humans.