"Oh hm, hmmmmmm..... Easiest way to do that might be to make it so that there's some sort of waker-upper drug released in a bit that gets them all to wake-up..."

Bonesaw has some enough tools to rig this up!

Beka arranges a couple of them more comfortably and then can help Bonesaw take all their tools back to their place.

Bonesaw has a bounce in her step on the way back.

"It's nice to have so many people to fix up! Not that I don't enjoy fixing you or Kat up but actually I'm sort of nervous when I have to do that sometimes and this was just fun!"

"Are we harder than humans to fix?"

"Hm... not really? Well, souls are confusing but mostly you're just more interesting to fix than humans, not harder."

"Huh. Why nervous then?"

"I don't know! It's like...." Bonesaw grasps at the air, at a loss for words, "like if I get distracted and turn you into a monster on accident than I'd have done a bad job instead of something Jack would tell me I should be proud of?"

"Whoa, is that a thing that happens?"

"Sometimes if I'm not paying attention and just sort of following my instincts? It used to happen more. I think my power wants things to be monsters." Bonesaw's smile fades.

"I didn't know it wanted stuff! I can't read its mind..."

"Oh huh! I wonder why that is - there's a bit in every parahuman's brain that does power control and expression. I can't talk to it or anything and I've only managed to figure out some of how it works but I'm pretty sure mine likes it when I make my art."

"You could turn animals into monsters!"

"I think it's been happy enough with the sort of things I've been making for our home? And the things I'm working on for if Sauron comes back and still is mad at us."

"Okay. Gotta keep the power happy, or I'd worry it wouldn't wanna protect us any more."

"Hm, I don't think that's gonna be a problem. It's not going to go away or anything."

"Even if it doesn't get enough of what it wants?"

"If I completely stopped doing arty things for a while it might start suggesting lots and lots of ideas or I'd find myself doing arty sort of things when I got even a little bit distracted. But even if that happens it's not going to stop working when I want to use it. It's a passenger, there in the background nudging and suggesting things, but I'm still the driver."

"What's a driver?"

Oh did she loan word that.

"Person who directs the thing you're riding on. Like I was the person driving the Smugglemonster and you were the passenger."

"Oh, that's a good word if you ride on things a lot."

"There were a bunch of things to ride on back on Earth, but not as fun as the ones I make."

"What was unfun about them?"

"They all looked sort of similar and they didn't have any biological parts or weapons and they were really hard for me to tinker with. Also they smelled. We had to travel in them a lot to avoid people noticing us."

"Aw, that sucks. I think the most noticeable things are some of the neatest stuff you do."

"Yeah, hiding wasn't as fun as being able to make whatever I want like I can do here. I guess we're still sort of hiding from Sauron but not nearly as much as I had to back on Earth."