"Well, if there's no scars I can't get a tattoo about it. It's not like I don't have plenty of scars... Do you like having acid tears?"

"I ... don't think so?"

"How come you don't stop then?"

Bonesaw blinks at the orf, thinking. When she installed the acid tears they were supposed to help her, to make her safe. But all they've done here is hurt someone.

After a moment she takes the scalpel she picked up to do surgery on the orf and turns it on herself, stabbing it into the skin beneath each eye, pulling out small pulsating sacks and flinging them across the room. They hiss where they land, pumping final dregs of acid on the floor.

Blood flows down Bonesaw's face from beneath each eye.

"- whoa. Okay. Uh, you're bleeding."

"Oh, yeah." She can fix that just by pinching the skin together - it'll adhere to itself and stop the bleeding.

"I can help with the burns now," she says, wiping the scalpel off on her pant leg. 

"Thanks!"

Doing the surgery is actually sort of relaxing, and pretty easy - a matter of applying a deeper anesthetic and the draining parts of the skin of acid and implanting some chemicals in the deeper layers to help promote healing without worrying about preventing scarring.

The orf holds quite still while Bonesaw works.

"All done."

"Thanks." Yawn. "I hope my tattoo guy has a slot today..."

"Mhm."

It is still night and in fact Bonesaw finds herself sleepy as well. But she would really rather not sleep on her own after the nightmare. For some reason she isn't asking about this and is instead blinking at the orf.

"I think I need some more sleep. But you don't have acid tears any more! So it should be pretty safe if you need more sleep too." She holds out her arms.

And there is a Bonesaw in them! A very sleepy Bonesaw.

Snuggly sleep.

Bonesaw is quieter the next few days and more cuddly.

The orf is perfectly happy to cuddle her.

One day she doesn't show up all day long though.

Bonesaw remembers where the orf lives from when she brought her the flower.

There she is! She is in absolutely awful shape!

I was going to come find you soon as I could walk.

Bonesaw starts operating immediately - she doesn't have her full kit here but she can make do.

"Can you tell me where it hurts?"

Kind of everywhere? Mostly my head actually.

Bonesaw can treat that first, though depending on the damage she might need to setup a circulatory passthrough in the meantime.

The orf lies there and tries her best to direct her to whatever's most urgent.

She'll need a new carotid artery, or an unacceptably long time to heal. Without any bodies around Bonesaw will have to use her own - she has enough redundancy built-in that she can spare it.

Do you not need that thing you took out of your neck?