Elsewhere

After only a moment of surprise at the sudden change in scenery, one hand half-raised in anticipation of stopping time to deal with the ghost, Lydia lunges fowards. Dropping into a roll, she pulls a grenade from her pocket, priming it and hurling the bomb at the largest concentration of the acid-spewing mollusks.

The first time she was here, they got her but good, and it was only thanks to the miracle properties of Dr. Sokolov's elixir that she wasn't permamently scarred; she doesn't intend to have a repeat performance.