"You don't do the tucking-away thing? Sherlock does it practically all the time, I've never even seen Steph."

"I only just found out about the tucking-away thing! From my secret mom!"

"Oh. Huh. Kas has to know about it, though, it was a thing before Jane passed out."

"Or wings," says Damaris. "It would be convenient sometimes if I could make my wings vanish away. But I don't think I actually want the power."

"I can't actually think of a time when it'd be useful to be missing a leg, however painlessly and temporarily."

"Sitting on a bus with no leg room," says Helen. "No legs! Problem solved!"

"I don't know how to sit without legs, I think I'd topple over."

"There is that."

"I'd say being down an arm would solve that problem when somebody's arm is trapped and guaranteed to fall asleep during certain kinds of cuddling? Except then that arm doesn't get any cuddles if it's gone, not even squashy fall-asleep ones."

"Is that bad?"

"Yes," says Soph. "Arm-falling-asleep cuddles are better than no arm cuddles at all."

"Good to know."

"I am full of useful knowledge!"

"You are!"

"What else do you need to know?"

"I dunno! Things," she says. "Things."

"Uuuum. How's gossip, is gossip a thing?"

"Yes."

"Bella has picked a name for her tiger. She won't tell me what it is, but that means there definitely could be something that could happen that would make her go get one."

"What sort of a thing, I wonder," says Helen.

"I don't know. For a while she couldn't go to Alethia for it, but now she could and I don't think she has."

"It's already a little weird that some people don't have daemons, but I think it might be weirder to not have one and then go and get one," she says contemplatively.

"Why's that?"

"I don't know! Maybe because it makes me think about the reverse, and - ick," she says.