[Alucard is going to leave the debate about elderly lizard care alone. He did not meant to set it off, and there's more important things to be had here. Mostly the point about experimentation, because it is the inevitable conclusion.]

A limb is one thing. Circulatory and respiratory are something else. Much more complex systems for one, that require some precise medical knowledge. Not that prosthetics aren't, but thinking about how the brain communicates with the body to make these functions work - and the heart as well - that says something about the knowledge the person doing this must have.

[He pauses, something surfacing in his mind.]

You two weren't here when it happened, but when Thorne was the only place capable of doing Summons, there was a jail break. It was led by two unknowns, and it wasn't clear if they had any allegiance to any factions. I have to wonder if maybe there's something in that thread worth pulling on.