"Yeah! Your singing was a lot of my inspiration for making this in the first place."

"I don't have a song that makes everything else prettier... I could try to write one though, that seems like the sort of thing a song could do."

"Oh wow! You can write your own magic songs?'

"Yeah, that's where new ones come from! It takes a long time, though, so I haven't done it much."

"How do you write them so that they are magic?"

"You kinda feel how they tug on the music of reality and adjust it draft by draft till it does what you want."

"Huh. Could you teach me a magic song? And also how to write my own?"

"I can try but it can be hard to make them work right, you've gotta sing very precisely. There's one for walking on water, is that good?"

"Sounds great!"

And Bonesaw can try learning it! 

Yup! Nobody else will try to use this room all day if it's where Bonesaw wants her singing lesson.

Bonesaw is not going to want a singing lesson all day! She wants to do so many things, which include learning to sing, up until the cocktail of drugs and tinker fugue that's been keeping her up for most of the last few days wears off, and than what she wants to do is sleep on the orf's bed.

Gosh. Okay. Then no one will be trying to use the room tonight either, except the orf.

Bonesaw sleeps in but will eventually rouse.

"Mmmm?" Bonesaw is confused for a second, before sitting bolt upright and scanning her surroundings for signs of danger. 

"You fell asleep. Should I have woken you up?"

"Oh."

"I don't know? Usually I only fall asleep when I know it's safe to sleep."

"I think this is pretty safe? All my dormmates left to give you privacy even."

"I guess I'm not used to it being safe to fall asleep without thinking about it first? It used to be that my family would only be able to sleep when we'd made sure no one was going to find us before we woke up, and even then someone stayed awake just in case. When I was really tired like last night it usually meant it was extra important not to fall asleep."

"Huh. I mean, you're still in Angband, nobody in Angband is allowed to hurt you."

"Yeah it's nice.'

"Back home some people on my team would hurt me sometimes but then the Siberian would stop them or I would and I'd make them do something else. Everyone else tried to hurt me though, and stopping them was harder."

"Well, you're here now. How did you get here? Your home sounds so different from everything else I've heard of whenever you mention it."

"I had a piece of tech from a tinker who specialized in things that had random and unpredictable effects and I thought it disabled it but I was in a hurry and I guess I was wrong since it exploded and sent me here."

"I'm pretty certain this is an entirely different would from mine - where I'm from almost everyone is human like me and some of them have powers that let them do a really wide variety of things - mine let me invent and understand biotechnology."

"Oh, you didn't just - learn all that stuff?"

"No, not really. There's something in my head that will explain things and can help me think about them and figure out how to use them to do other things and it's not me? I think it's not me, but it's hard to tell sometimes."

"Weird! Do you like it?"

"What do you mean?"