"If I knew how the technology in the labs worked, I probably could." That did, on the other hand, come with the idea of using it. And she wasn't sure any of it was safe, alongside not having much of a head for it. "But no, I was just going to eat some, probably. I'm..."

How to phrase it?

"...much more durable than a human being," she noted, cautiously. Now that John had been there for a while, maybe he wouldn't find it alarming that she was no longer truly human.