Lisle took a deep breath.<em>Panic never solves anything,</em>she told herself fiercely.  "Calm," she said out loud, and clung to that word like a lifeline.  She felt a strange sense of anticipation as Doktor Baumann gathered her in and slipped a hand down out of sight.  There was something significant about that motion, something that was poised and deliberate as a scalpel, and her muscles tensed as those fingers slid along them.<br/><br/>It divided her attention, as much as she needed to hear whatever explanation was going to be given to her, she wanted to know what that hand was doing as well.