"Is that a doable thing?" Sam didn't sound skeptical, but mildly surprised. "The new skin growth stimulation, I mean. Gonna have to sit you down for the whole scoop on advances in medical science one of these days. I'm hoping to hear there's an improved alternative to MRIs... but I don't want to derail just yet. We'll get back to that. Back to removing pigmented tissue? That's a tricky bit of business, since I'm going to be saturated."

The adept shifted, leaning back on her hands to look up at the ceiling. Her bent for blood and ink carried with it several complications; limited skin space was the most consequential.

"A person only has so many square feet of skin, so I'm getting the most out of mine by inking it up in three stages. The first stage is the sheet music. I like the look, like it a lot, and the bars mean it's easily measured. The second stage is filling in the notation's negative space with white ink. Already tried a test patch, and it worked well. Gonna do my face, too." She lifted a leg, setting its ankle on the opposite knee to show off the sole. "The third stage will be a full face-and-body blacklight tattoo. Stages two and three---alongside the scope---make removal complicated, and may make dermabrasion necessary. Laser removal is actually ideal for black ink, but I don't know how well or even if it would work for blacklight colour, and it was long ago ruled out on account of expense---originally. Availability, now."