"What do all those kinds mean?"

"Oh um, Brute means strength and durability and is triggered by physical damage, Striker is a touch-based ability and is triggered by immediate simple stressors, Mover is movement and wanting to run away, Tinker is inventing and is triggered by mental stress that persists over subjectively long time horizons, Thinker is cognitive but not related to the same sort of inventing and triggered by briefer mental stress, and Trump is powers that interact with other powers directly and is from stress involving powers. Their are also a few other classifications and really the whole system is just an attempt to describe what's going on, not something inherent to how powers work. Except for Tinkers and Trumps which do seem to be pretty natural categories."

"So she'll probably be a Trump if she's triggered by getting too many surgeries or something and a Mover if Sauron chases us maybe?"

"Oh um. Yeah. Though the Trump trigger would have to be because of the sorts of surgeries I do with my powers, if it was just about having surgery done at all it would more likely be Brute powers."

Bonesaw frowns.

"I don't want to make her trigger."

"- huh, I thought you'd be excited for her to have powers."

"Triggering isn't very nice...."

"Well, lots of things aren't very nice but most of them don't also give you powers?"

"I think the people I've made trigger before would almost all prefer to have died instead?"

"And um. They were scared of me afterwards. And angry."

"Oh."

"It probably wouldn't be as bad for her? Since she's second generation it takes less to trigger. But um. When I was working on triggering someone who was second generation her dad still tried to stop me even though it meant he'd die."

Nod nod.

Bonesaw hugs her knees.

"Probably it's good that she can trigger if she needs to."

"It sounds useful..."

"Yeah."

"...It didn't really help when I triggered."

...hug?

Hug! Tight clinging hug.

Pat pat. "Maybe we will just live in the woods forever and nothing scary will ever happen to Kat."

Cling.

".... but I'm something scary."

"- not always! I don't think she'll mind her eyes changing color and she didn't even notice you doing it, right?"

Nod nod. 

"... I think they'll be really pretty this way."

"And this way you'll be able to tell what she's thinking a little even though you don't read minds."

"Oh yeah... that's probably good."

Bonesaw hugs Beka while she thinks for a bit...

"'m scared that she'll always be scared of me and hate me."

"I think it's pretty normal for sisters to sometimes be mad and hate each other and then make up later."

"Huh."

"....Probably my brother hated me when he died cause I let it happen and I won't get a chance to make up with him. But I'm not going to let that happen to Kat."

"She will live for aaaages and ages." Pet pet the soft squishy baby.