The brush of the doctor's shaft - still an impossibility in her mind - emphasized to Lisle the reality that this<em>was</em>something that the doctor had gone through before.  The change - the deformity - already accomplished without any say in the matter.<br/><br/>"New things," she said hesitantly.  "Like these?"  She held up the paw-like hands.  "How to live with these?"  One palm rubbed over the stumps of the other.  "And how to live with - that monster?"