Spawn of heresy

"Let's see what it is," I muttered while raising the staff up, all the way to the point where the heart at its top moved to the level of my eyes. 

At first, nothing really happened. 

I simply stared at a massive heart, watching how it pumped nothing but air. 

'It's not exactly how a human heart looks like, so how did I never hesitate whether or not it's a heart?' I asked myself, eagerly finding a hole in my current understanding of the situation. 

I was looking for some gap in my logic… because I couldn't make any sense of this situation. And no matter how long I took staring at the beating heart at the top of the staff… I couldn't feel anything.