‘Beast!’ whispered a familiar voice.‘No, I’m God!’ Ennio answered aloud and snatched at the velvet curtain. It clattered along its rail, but he saw only darkness. ‘Yes, I’m a beast. A perverted beast. But it is you who has made me one. You’ve made me so,’ he hissed into the darkness. Having folded out the nylon bags, he went back into the bathroom. Pursing his lips, he cut the skin on the girl’s belly, then cut the body in two. He hurled the innards and viscera into the first bag, then, having pressed the air out of it, closed it with a bundling clip. He wrapped the torso, arms and head in one bag and the legs with the bottom and hips in another. Afterwards, Jiang Li’s body was only like a doll truncated by aggressive little boys. He tied another layer of nylon bags around the first to avoid spills creating embarrassing stains on the wall-to-wall carpet.