"I don't think most of the Nine would have wanted to do that. Especially not Jack." 

"How come?"

"He liked meeting new people and doing things everyone would hear about and showing people how the things they thought were okay weren't actually real."

"Weren't real?"

"Like how heroes who were famous for being strong were actually very breakable or how society would collapse if you pushed on it the right way."

"So sorta like how some people are really into convincing Elves that their marriages were mistakes or that they don't really love their children and stuff?"

"Yeah."

"That sounds like him." Bonesaw says, subdued. 

"Some people are really into that."

Nod nod. 

"But you weren't specifically, right, you just hung out with him?"

"n-" Bonesaw tries to start saying, her voice coming out quieter than she meant.

"Oh. I. Once. Gave everyone in a big family a virus that made them confuse violence and helping each other. And another time I made a baby into a spider monster and had it kill it's mom and didn't tell her it was her baby until she had already started fighting back. And I had a friend who was my age who Jack let me keep around for a bit and I made him forget about his family because he kept missing them and Jack didn't like that."

Her voice trails off around the lump in her throat.

"Oh, I didn't know you had a friend, what was his name?"

Bonesaw's face is doing a thing and she isn't entirely sure what!

"Martin, I think. It was not too long after I got powers. Jack let me play with him so long as he behaved. But eventually Crawler got annoyed and killed him."

"Oh, that sucks."

Bonesaw looks down at the ground for a while.

Beka shifts Kat around in her sling in response to some silent Kat-thought.

Bonesaw walks in silence for a bit.

"Are you angry at me now?"

"No? Why would I be angry at you?"

"Because I did all those things to parents and kids,"

"...well, most everybody's got parents and most people have children, it doesn't make them special."

"When you asked me if I did things like that it sounded like you didn't want me to have done that sort of thing...."

"Well, y'know, maybe it'd be a little safer but not being safe doesn't make me angry."

"Oh."

"Does it make you scared?"

"A little."

Walk walk.

"I wish I never did those things so you wouldn't have to be scared of me."