Tepid water isn't exactly the best idea, but rinsing things off will doubtless help.

Having set out the clothes to clean them later (given the smell, it may be best to wait until Sadie falls asleep - if she does), he returns and starts bandaging up her wounds.

Ah; time for distraction.

"I was- seeing out of a girl's eye. She looked about your age, though a little shorter. Darker hair," he says.

"Just looking at herself in a mirror; it wasn't a long memory, but it also wasn't the only one. The other..."

The pause is strictly for effect as he keeps moving the bandages into a comfortable tightness.

"I suspect I was looking through her eye again, only this time she was watching a video, of an ape painting. Portraits, even."

He smiles, looking up at Sadie's face.

"Doesn't sound like something you see every day, now does it?"