OK, I have to admit that upon reading it the first time, I didn't even notice that the thing that's going through her body was attached to a string to pull it back through her again. It just never gets mentioned in the story at all, and I somehow missed the bottom right panel on page 19 when it gets pulled back.
Only noticed it while editing later on...
Well anyway, it kinda made the whole story even better. So there's that :)