In truth, the way things developed after that incident was thus.
When we had returned to consciousness, the Tower of the Moon was halfway
destroyed.
Rather than appearing as if the monster in the "box" had devoured it, it looked more
like the tower had just decided to sit down. The fact that we had survived the process
seemed a little hard to believe.

The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II, Volume 3, Epilogue