Elmire's new body has sustained a lot of damage, and her left thigh is badly bruised. Elmire laments that her new body is nothing more than "a lump of flesh" . She asks Elmire to take her out of her body, but Elmire refuses, saying that she's not going to cut her body in half. She tells Elmire that it's painful to part with her friend, but that her friends can fill the "hole" that Elmire has created in her friend's body