"She'd be well known iffen she were," Dr. Mitchell noted. "Aught to mention, on a strictly confidential bases mind you, that in stitching this shoulder I'm noticing that the pink ain't exactly skin deep, so not a tattoo." So that was one thing to cross off the list?

"Being as how you seem a bit puzzled I'd start looking into circuses that might be missing one of their own." Made sense to him. Girl ended up with a truly pink dermal layer, well, she had to be in a freak show right? "Any sign of that trouble aside from the knife? You gonna assign someone to sit outside her door during recovery?"