User blog comment:Servant of Evillious/Seven Deadly Sinners: Banica Conchita of Gluttony/@comment-16798306-20130305073339/@comment-6192846-20130305114850

In order:

1) Look closer, you can make out the shadowed silhouetteof her crossing her arms.

2) That is always a possibility. It is an interesting notion worth thinking about.

3) I have my doubts, all things considered. There is no reason for Irina to use a corpse with a missing hand. It is possible but I personally don't see that as being the big secret behind it. I would credit it to being a power of the glass, first and foremost.