Hadlin's Room

The ritual goes through, and Hadlin's fingernails fuse to his fingers, becoming blunt claw-like things, and any unnotable body hair disappears. But as the link finishes, there is a creaking sound vaguely like laughing, and the beetle changes.

It suddenly shifts to be a six-inch tall woman, in what looks like a dress made of chitin. Her first reaction seems to be... disgust.

"Blood! he made me drink-ugh!"