In my loop, naughts are wet, mud colored, piles of limbs, their faces and distinctive features almost entirely worn away, like melted candle wax.

They're horrifying, but that's because of how they move, and what they do, not really what they look like. I mostly feel sorry for them - when I'm not running away and screaming.

In the early loops, they were considerably more human. That's worse.

It's so much worse…