"Be-becoming?"  Lisle's voice cracked slightly, tinkling like a pine tree after an ice storm.  "I - I'm human - not an animal," she continued, eyes deep with loss as her stubbed fingers squirmed against the table - she hadn't yet attempted to move her legs on her own.<br/><br/>"I-is that - why you wanted me to sleep?  So I wouldn't know?  I'd - I'd wake up and it would all be gone?"  She couldn't imagine how long it would take for that to take place.  Surgery was beyond her more pedantic education, although she knew about doctors and their work.  The kinds of procedures that occurred here would seem like magic to her.