“Hold her head, Regent, don’t let her pull away.  And cloth,” I said, my voice small, “Need some kind of cloth to absorb the blood.” 

“Also I need you to call this one guy I met when Leviathan attacked. I didn’t ask him, but I’m wildly guessing his phone number is 1-800-GRN-FIRE.”

First aid classes hadn’t prepared me for this.

There was a tearing sound, and regent handed me a strip of cloth.

It was the strip of cloth that made the upper part and front leg of the letter R.

I fumbled to put it into place at the corner of her mouth, where the bleeding was worse, then applied the rest along the cut.  The white cloth turned totally crimson in a second.

This is looking bad… and I doubt there’s much chance Bonesaw will help.

“More,” I said, keeping my voice quiet so it wouldn’t carry to the members of the Nine that were standing nearby.

“I wouldn’t bother,” Jack said.  “A wound like that, she’ll die of blood loss before you can do anything.”

How about not, please?

Heh, imagine if Amy just randomly showed up, healed Tattletale and ran off again without a word.

Of course that silly deus ex machina ain’t gonna happen. I’m just finding it to be an amusing mental image.

“You asshole,” Grue growled.

“You really shouldn’t swear!” Bonesaw said.  “It’s crude!  If you agree to be good, maybe I could fix her for you.

Alright, sure, Grue and I could swear off swearing for the rest of the chapter if you just fix her up to as close as you can healthily get to the way she was?

Oh, and since her cheek’s already cut, I could change it around so her teeth are on the outside and she wouldn’t have all that skin and flesh just getting in the way.

The way she was.

And, and, I could make it really artistic and beautiful, and change her tongue so she can make all of the speech sounds you’d normally need lips to make, like puh, buh, muh, wah, vuh…”

The silly thing? This is still adorable.

But yeah, if you do any of this stuff, I’m gonna say a swear word real loud. Do you want me to say a swear word real loud, Bonesaw? No? Then be a good girl and help the Undersiders fix Tattletale to the way she was, please.