"A few already do, or I couldn't've learned it myself, but only if they need it for something or hang around someone who does a lot."

"What do you need it for?"

"Acting! I do parts in hallucinations sometimes."

"Oh neat! That sounds really fun."

"I'm pretty good at it and I get to learn lots of things that I wouldn't otherwise."

"So far the only times I've really hung out with elves there haven't been any hallucinations going on - I think I'd find them distracting from my work."

"Prisoners, or did you meet some before you came here?"

"Just prisoners - there aren't elves where I'm from."

"Yeah, it does seem like it might be hard to do your thing if actors were running around all the time. I think sometimes His Lordship does smaller ones but obviously I'm not in them so I don't know as much."

"What sort of things do you do in them?"

"When I was little I'd sometimes be an Elf kid in them, like the prisoner's daughter or niece or whatever. Now I'm usually just background, though in the long run I might wind up learning enough about somebody's mom or something that I'm always cast as her."

"How do you play a mom?"

"Like an Elf mom? I mostly just mimic what my mom did except without the torture, so like she was for my brothers and sisters. And with more singing, because Elves are like that."

"Oh."

"I don't really remember much about what my mom did."

"I can't tell how old you are 'cause you're the only one of you I know."

"Twelve."

"Oh. I'm sorry about whatever happened with your mom."

"I wasn't good enough for her so I left to live with my uncle Jack."

"I used to worry about turning into an Elf so my parents wouldn't love me any more."

"They don't like elves?"

"Well, they can't, standard orc oaths make them swear to hate Elves."

"Oh."

Bonesaw pauses for a moment, thinking.

"I think it's good your parents didn't have to hate you."

"Yeah! It helped a little when I didn't like being tortured that there was a good reason."

Bonesaw is going to give the orf a hug now.

Aww! Hug.