when kiel and the other explorers seemed reluctant to believe her affirmation that alessia had helped her body to reform from the energy into which it had converted to protect its beingthe first time any of the crew had experienced the ultimate survival mechanism of hinev 's serum-induced metamorphosislierva explained in no uncertain terms that without alessia , she would have been lost to them , doomed to wander to the universe as a mass of sentient energy if she hadnt been brought back then and there to her physical state .