Beka works on learning to cook, and collecting water, and singing, and painting the treehouse as it goes up, and playing with Kat.

Bonesaw also plays with Kat! One day she wakes up early and does some surgery so that she can play with Kat better.

"I got your nose!" she says, popping Kat's now detachable nose off her face.

"Uuuuubb!" says Kat.

"Where'd your nose go?" she asks, holding said nose behind her back, "Where'd it go?"

"Bah."

Bonesaw brings her hands back around, the nose stuck on top of one of her fingers.

"Can you find the nose?"

"Beh, beh." Armwave armwave.

Did you... take her nose... off of her face? asks Beka from where she's getting water from the stream.

Yep!

"You found it!" Bonesaw declares, poking Kat in the bellybutton with the nose. 

Why? What if she loses it?

I wanted to play the nose game! I can always make her a new one if she loses it.

But then she wouldn't have a nose while you were making it! Are you going to detach more of her?

I don't plan to? It's fine for her not to have a nose for a bit - she just won't be able to smell.

I knew a guy who lost his nose - like in a fight not this way - and it seemed to give him some problems.

Oh if you don't detach someone's nose properly it might do that.

Well, I guess you did it properly... are you going to do any other stuff to her?

Probably?

Like what?

I don't know yet, but I'm sure I'll think of something. Why?

I dunno if she likes surprises.

I'm not sure she thought it was surprising at all.

Well right now she's a baby and nothing's surprising really because she doesn't know how things work but when she gets older she might not like it.

That would be unfortunate!

Yeah!

Hopefully she grows up like you,