You can hear them grunt and "scream". You couldn't if no air could escape. Looking at the intern's skeleton, their surgury looks to be far more extensive than we realise: they have no jaw. It makes sense, given the Vykkers' disposition, but another theory is that they originally had sucker mouths, like lampreys.
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