Tally feels a blush spreading across her face. Gideon's torso is sturdy and strong, and definitely not ugly, despite its asymmetries and imperfections. She reaches out a hand to touch the wound again. It does look mostly fine, but her lessons in first aid are miraculously still there under her racing heartbeat.

"You need an ointment and a bandage to lower the chances of it getting infected," she says. "Or medspray, but they don't have that here." She just kind of leaves her hand there, not wanting to break contact.