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The nameless child continued screaming even after Alec had sewn his mouth shut. Alec, after adjusting the boy's steel arm shackles again and spreading the anesthesia on his shoulders, lifted the surgical saw and aimed it's placement on the boy's right shoulderblade. Placing his weight on the handle, he pushed the blade into the child's shoulder and let it cut through with a back-and-forth motion. The boy struggled frantically but Alec held him firmly to the operating table. When the cutting was complete, he sealed the wound on the boy's gaping shoulder; he then took the blood-dripping arm and, folding it in half gently, placed it gingerly on the dinner plate on the table beside the operating bed.