[h3]The Hunter's Dream[/h3]
With their immediate business with Queen Annalise concluded, the four Hunters simply turned and walked the several steps it took them to reach the lantern they had arrived at, and easily returned to the Hunter's Dream. Upon arriving, Farren would experience the same sensation as he had the time before last, as if he had just had the doll channel blood echoes to amplify his physical strength.
But while Ophelia hurried over and began eagerly reporting their findings to the doll and the Shopkeeper, Torquil found himself somewhat... confused. Because he felt weird on a whole other scale than he ever had on returning to the Dream. Specifically he suddenly felt like his mask and hat did not fit properly anymore, that it felt odd against his skin, and all of it just generally wrong and uncomfortable. A second later he realized that even his mouth felt different, and for a brief moment he feared that his jaw had become defective again before it dawned on him that it was more comprehensive than that. His teeth felt weird, and when he reflexively tried pressing his tongue against them to feel them more, he discovered that his tongue was off, too!

Moving frantically and urgently, Torquil turned to Farren and asked in a panicked voice that sounded only vaguely similar to Torquil's voice, as if it had been distorted by passing through a long metal pipe: “Something is wrong... something is very wrong!”
Torquil pulled down his mask with one hand and tore off his cap with the other, and revealed a head that no longer looked human. The skin on his face had turned a pale shade of blue and looked unnaturally smooth, except some odd randomly scattered chitinous patches on his cheeks. His lips were thinner than before and, as he opened his mouth, revealed that his once-human teeth were now needle-like in shape, and behind them a very long, very thin appendage that almost seemed to resemble a proboscis more than a tongue. His nose was much less pronounced than before, having seemingly partway flattened into his face, whereas his eyes were nearly twice as large as before and almost completely black... all three of them. Because a third eye had appeared and opened in the center of his forehead.