"Could you turn back around? I think Kat's eyes aren't adjusting right to the sun."

"They're not but she yelled because you were poking at her and that scared her."

"Huh? She sees me all the time."

"Yeah but I think she's scared you're going to do surgery to her again."

"Oh."

Bonesaw frowns.

"How do you know it's that?"

"'Cause I read her mind all the time."

"Oh."

"Can you send it?"

"...sure, okay."

The sun is tooooooo bright and scaryknifesister was TOUCHING her but Mama fixed it.

Bonesaw freezes, caught between a complicated bundle of guilt and anxiety and fear about the 'scary', and an unexpected surge of desperate joy at the 'sister'.

- Beka stops relaying.

"She.... she thinks I'm her sister."

"That's what I call you to her, I'm not all the way in the habit of names all the time."

"Oh. That makes sense."

"I don't think I want my sister to be scared of me but probably she should be?"

"She didn't really like the nose thing."

"Oh. I thought the nose thing would be fun."

"Maybe she's not old enough to appreciate it? Maybe it would be fun when she's four or something."

"That would be nice."

"... Usually when I do surgery on four year-olds they still don't like it."

"Do you usually turn their pain off and check that they think it sounds like fun?"

"No? Do you think that would work for her?"

"Maybe! And maybe it'd help if you did the actual surgery while she was asleep, I think she doesn't like that part and she might like stuff like being able to see better in the sunshine."

"Oh that's a good idea.... I could also put her to sleep if she's awake when I come up with an idea?"

"As long as you didn't do it a way that scared her that'd probably work too."

"I could do it without her noticing, I'm pretty sure. It should work fine for her to be asleep for most surgeries I might do, unless they require her input or something."

"Do a lot of them?"