For Patrick, watching Lina change is like watching a magical and impossible creature emerge from a cocoon. Her muscles have become toned and she’s lost some of the roundness in her face. Not at all gaunt or muscular, she is only more efficient - as if nature had removed some of the things she no longer needed…. …and as she steps lightly to the cupboard in bare feet, they barely seem to touch the floor. She appears to float, both weightless and powerful. She has become part of the air that surrounds them and the air that he breathes. She is too perfect for him, he knows. She always had been.