"I can do without it temporarily."

Eventually she is going to carry the orf to her lab for further work - she doesn't have the tools to address all the internal bleeding here, or to implant a nerve blocker.

Makes sense. She curls up small in Bonesaw's arms.

She'd hug her but it's not safe to right now. 

Once they're at the lab there are more operations, including installing a proper nerve blocker.

"I'm going to turn off your pain in but dampen your motor control too so you don't hurt yourself on accident."

Oh, that sounds good.

For a bit it hurts worse than it did before and then the pain fades, stopping completely after a few seconds.

"Thank you!!"

Bonesaw smiles slightly.

"I can give you the ability to control whether it's on or off - either way you'll need to rest for a day or two to finish recovering properly."

Her face grows serious again. 

"What happened."

"They wanted me to swear some stuff and I didn't wanna."

"Who are they." Bonesaw says with dangerously little affect. 

"I don't know who sent the guy to beat me up."

"Who was the guy."

"Name's Pralak."

"Where is he."

"- I dunno, he's not in my osanwë range right now."

Bonesaw inspects one of the tools she used for surgery, smelling it. 

"Glaurung will be able to find him."

There's a halfway finished monster she can modify to protect the orf while she's gone, so she gets to that.

"Whoa, what's that?"

"Sauron wanted a wolf monster. This is my third try - took five wolves and an orc to make."

"He'll protect you while I'm gone - you should rest."

"Okay."

She does her best to sleep.

Bonesaw gathers her tools and leaves to make Pralak tell her who sent him.

Pralak was carrying out an old policy on orfs! It hasn't been implemented in a while since there haven't been orfs in a while but it's been how things were done with orfs since Utumno.

Frustrating. 

She'll make him swear oaths then - to hurt, to regret, and to contradict his other oaths. At the end she floods his body with the time dilation serum, so he'll experience subjective eons in the instant before she lets him die.

She's sure to be back in her lab by morning. 

Zzzzz.

Bonesaw checks on her orf before curling up on the operating table with her to sleep. 

Her orf is recovering as well as can be expected. Also pregnant, if she checks that for some reason.

She notices during another general examination the following morning.

"You're um. Pregnant. I think."