As the blue light washed him over, many long, black, tentacle-like appendages pushed out of Val's lower abdomen; they twisted like infernal tongues as they wrapped his arms and legs - like a crown of black insect legs with countless joints, moving in concert, skittering - or like the long shadows of the dusk, smooth and shiny like slugs. Dread muffled Adrien's senses as he watched a grin spread on Val's lips, a grin unlike anything he had ever seen on his face - the grin of a ravenous monster fantasizing the flavor of its victim's flesh; the grin of something that was far from human.