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"She's still got her brain," the neurosurgeon said, "we've transplanted it safely into the upper part of her ribcage."
"Although she can't hear, see, taste or smell anything," the anaesthetist said, "she's still fully conscious, fully aware."
"We have her limbs and the rest of her head stored safely", said the director, "so you can bring her back later to be restored."
Alisha didn't say anything.

"This can't be legal", the press said, "something should be done."
"We have a video here," said the lawyers, "it makes it clear that she requested the procedure."
"We've come to the conclusion", the Supreme Court said, "that elective surgery of this kind is constitutionally protected as a form of free speech."
Alisha didn't say anything.

"Look at this newspaper story," the woman in the next seat on the train said, "this girl has obviously been tricked, she's quite clearly the victim here."
"I hear she was sponsored to do it," said the man sitting opposite, "the whole thing must have been carefully arranged by some awful filthy pervert."
"I don't know," I said to them, nervously checking the case safely held between my knees, "who knows what the people involved really feel about it?"
Alisha didn't say anything.

"I have to wonder", said my daughter, "what it might be like if I asked them to do something like this to me."
"I don't like having that thing hanging around here," my wife said, "I think you should take her back to the lab and get her reassembled."
"You'd have to be sure," my son said, "that she consented to that kind of procedure."
Alisha didn't say anything.