"Thank you."

"You're welcome," Bonesaw replies, with a small smile.

Beka wears Kat around most of the time, usually on her back once she's big enough to hold up her head. She paints the treehouse, and walks on water to get to the best fishing spots, and collects nuts and berries and roots and eggs and animals for Bonesaw to render into whatever combination of dinner or materials suit her. Sometimes she comes up with project ideas in case they'll be distracting - Elves sometimes ride horses, what if this deer were rendered suitable for riding, it could have its own stirrups built in? What if these plants were even more responsive to the crop song than regular plants? Once there's a Lucky Charms production setup could they be introduced to other foods from Bonesaw's home too?

The deer idea sounds great and Bonesaw can make them go so fast and easy to ride! And she can give them really pretty and detailed antlers that branch in a fractal-like patterrn recursively so that you can't even see the smallest branches with the naked eye and also they are razor sharp as a side-effect of this.

The crops things is complicated and interesting and soon enough Bonesaw has figured out how to grow most vegetables in minutes with the song and some other hypergrowth modifications. She has to make some changes to Beka and Kat's digestive systems so the foods safe but that's easily done. 

The Lucky Charms set-up is an ongoing long term project that she's going to keep spending a little bit of time on but not that much. She can definitely make mac'n'cheese for dinner one night! And for dessert there are intricate lollipops that take on the shape of iridescent shells a sea creature might live in.

The lollipops are so beautiful!! If Beka catches snails for her can she do real shells like that to hang from the treehouse?

Ooooh definitely! She can even make them glow colors for lighting!

Gorgeous!!! Beka will catch so many snails!!!

And soon enough there place will be lit by iridiscently glowing snail shell creations on strings, the light dimming in the evenings.

Beka experiments with several ways of arranging them for maximum effect. There's not a ton of string to be had in the range between "animal gut" and "rope" but it turns out braiding grass into rope is kind of fun too.

Pretty!

One night Bonesaw smells blood - her own. She's wide awake near instantly and flips herself into a crouch, adrenaline shooting into her veins as she scans for who's attacking her but none of her senses are showing anything and she can't see what to attack and -

"BEKA!!"

Beka leaps awake and seizes Kat. What's wrong - She's sniffing the air but her first guess was fire and she doesn't smell smoke -

There's a spot of blood leaking through Bonesaw's underwear.

Can you sense any minds?

She starts deploying a colorless oderless knockout gas that she's immunized herself, Beka, and Kat to. 

- just us -

I'm bleeding, so someone attacked. Maybe long ranged - I can modify the Deerfriend to have better smell and see if it can find someone without risking me being ambused, give me a minute...

Are you sure you didn't just scratch yourself in your sleep or something?

Bonesaw glances down at her body briefly before returning to waking the Deerfriend up from the knockout gas she just used. 

It's underneath my underwear I don't see how I could have scratched myself there... Though no holes in it either so maybe that means it wasn't a normal projectile...

...Beka has known Bonesaw long enough to not suggest that maybe she should be more selective about masturbation implements but she can't really think of anything else.

... Oh.

Bonesaw stops working on the Deerfriend.

It's my time of the month... It's a thing human bodies to do, when they stop being kids... but I'm still a kid! And it should be delayed by consistent extreme physiological stress! ...I guess I haven't really fought anyone since the breakout, and that was after a long time of being safe too.... But I'm only twelv-thirteeen. Oh.

Human bodies just bleed for no reason?? She starts putting Kat back to bed.

It's part of um. Inappropriate reproductive things. For when you turn into an adult.

Bonesaw looks so sad about this. 

That's so weird, I don't think Elves do that and I know orcs don't! So probably if you ever want to reproduce you will still be able to even if you fix it so you don't bleed randomly.

Oh, yeah, I could fix it. I guess if I stop things from changing than I won't have to be an adult until I'm actually old enough....

She starts gathering supplies.

How old's that?

I dunno. When I know how to be responsible and things, I guess.