"How many clothes do you have?"

This is just so many clothes.

"Lots! You'll get the ones with soup on them back when they've gone through the laundry and don't have soup on them any more." Did he manage to get enough tangles out of her hair while he was washing it that she can now be combed?

Nope! He might be able to comb the ends sort of.

He will do his best. "I think you might need your hair trimmed! It's such a pretty color, but it doesn't look like it's been maintained."

"Maintained?"

She does not like the sound of hair trimming. It sounds .. bad.

"You saw Timio's hair, right? She has curly hair too - or, actually, I'm not even sure if yours is naturally curly, but she does have curly hair - and every morning and every evening and sometimes even in the middle of the day, she combs it, so none of it can get into knots. I'll try to get this neatened up if you really don't want it cut, but it looks like it'll be pretty time consuming."

"Why?" 

She doesn't have a very specific question, it's a very general why.

"There's lots of knots. The knots have knots! Which have knots! But I can work on it if you want to keep your hair long, and then once it's all brushed out once, it'll be easier to keep it that way." New clothes go on kiddo and he will try harder with the comb. Gently, pinching the hair above a particular knot hard while he works on it so he doesn't pull at the scalp.

Eefa is confused about why the knots are bad but will allow him to continue with the probably-not-hurting-her thing. 

If she'll put up with it he will continue working on getting the tangles out of her hair for quite a long time.

Eefa fidgets a bit but when she moves her head it gets her hair pulled so she does her best to stay still 

Pick pick comb comb pick pick.

Eefa will not mention that that pick hurt! Otherwise they might try to repeat it.

He's doing his level best not to hurt! At some point his goal becomes less to untangle her whole head and more to separate some sections of tangle from other sections, so that at least the sections can be braided together overnight and not get worse and he can pick up where he left off in the morning.

He eventually succeeds at the separating! 

Eefa is very still throughout, somewhat unnaturally so.

"I think I'm not going to get this all done tonight, but if I braid it like so," he can do this very fast, he has practice, "then when you sleep on it it shouldn't get worse, and over the next day or two we can work on the rest of it. And with that I think we should let Anina have the bath," here is Chioss with Anina, "and we can get your teeth brushed..."

The sink is over there, he opens a brand new toothbrush, and offers her choice of cinnamon or raspberry toothpaste.

"Raspberry?" she's not even hungry but it doesn't occur to her to say no to food, even if it's paste.

"Okay!" He puts a little dollop on the toothbrush and -

"- huh. Is - have your teeth always been like that?"

"Yes?"

"Huh. Well - the doctor's going to come by tomorrow morning, first thing, to give you a checkup. Do you know what that is?"

"No? Maybe?"

"It hurts a lot?"

"- it shouldn't hurt a lot. It might hurt a little if he's very worried about you and needs to find out more, or give you vaccinations you may have skipped. He'll warn you if that's going to happen and it'll be over quick. If you want he can demonstrate on me first so you can see how it works and that I'm okay."

"Oh....kay."

Eefa does not like where this is going. But there isn't any obvious way out right now.

"But mostly what he'll be here for is to figure out if you're healthy and, if you're not, what we need to do to help you get that way. He'll have questions about what you've been eating, and if you're sleeping well, and he might poke you a little to make sure your elbows bend like they're supposed to and things like that but that part isn't supposed to hurt even a little. And I'm going to have to ask him what's up with your hair and your teeth! They're very special and I don't know why they'd be like that."

"I don't think they're special?"

On second thought, the people she's seen here do all seem to have different teeth from the people she's seen before.

... If the doctor looks at her he might figure out she's not normal and she doesn't want that but no one has realized that from her teeth before so. Maybe it won't go wrong?? But Mikko seems to have noticed something. 

She might have to escape during the night. Or at least soon after the doctor visit.