( He makes no mention of the Merchant, not that she expected him to, but it'd been one of her more private suspicions. If he assigned Kaneki to retrieve a lone beating heart, why not a tongue from the captain who first secured their voyage? Might be he was aware of the Company possessing it. )

So it did. Some of my companions were pulled underwater by the kraken, only to awake in some greyed landscape, where time passed in a haze.