Experiment, like calling it that's what he'd do for another; like that's how he'd look on Baudin, or some smaller body. Some dearer one.

"Then get what you gotta. I'm here 'til it's done."

That strikes pretty fucking imperative. He's not blind: The pretty little things in Riftwatch, they only pretend to harmlessness — but if Barrow'd broken Tavane's nose? Niehaus?

(They'd like that, calling this an experiment. He doesn't. He's finding them both a different doctor.)