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Lyra struggled to put more distance between herself and the Reptilian, but her limbs would barely move. However, after a short while, she realized the creature's behavior was rather strange for a man-eating monster. She knelt by the door and said the same thing, over and over, in some lizard language Lyra didn't understand. What [i]was[/i] clear was that she was upset - perhaps because she'd been expecting her meal not to be so meager. But why did she look like she was surrendering?

Lyra opened her mouth to urge her visitor to demand someone better to eat, but froze before the words came out. Slowly but surely, the Reptilian's scales were retracting, and skin was taking its place. Lyra's tears stopped as she gaped. Was this girl a were-Reptilian? She had never heard of such a thing before! Yet, as she watched, almost all of the scales disappeared.

Lyra hesitated. "Are you not going to eat me?" she asked. Before she knew what she was doing, she crawled a few inches forward - and fell, her chin landing on the mattress. Perhaps this girl just had some weird condition. "Get help, please!" said Lyra, "I can't really move on my own..." There was no sign of comprehension in the girl's eyes. Did she not speak English?

Desperate to convey her message anyway, Lyra pointed to her legs, then to herself, and shook her head. "I'm really hungry," she said, holding her hand and moving her mouth as if eating a piece of pizza. "If I eat, I may regain a little of my strength, and maybe I'll be able to walk... please, get me something!"

Before she could think of the gestures to convey the last part of her message, Lyra was interrupted by what sounded like a woman talking over an intercom. Apparently, they were in some sort of facility, and were being asked to travel to an auditorium. Lyra looked around helplessly. She couldn't walk on her own, and no one had come to help her. How was she supposed to go anywhere?