to the body so it has blood supply, then remove however much tissue they need to remove above it, sort of "slot" the nipple into place, and wrap the remaining tissue underneath to secure everything together. there was a sort of stencil my doctor used to draw the guidelines that looked like this:
![a greyscale comic page. Hawthorne and gus walk through a forest, inspecting patches of sunlight on the forest floor.
Hawthorne: They grow in patches of moonlight during certain celestial alignments.
Gus: Just like the virus.
Hawthorne: Correct.
Hawthorne: Unfortunately, they then wither in the sun after only two or three days, and I didn't have any luck yesterday.
Gus: Seems a bit convenient that the disease and the thing that makes the medicine for the disease both appear during the same phases.
Hawthorne: [sigh] Do you know what a vaccine is, Augustus? Or antivenin?
Gus: Oh, shut up.
Gus: You're lucky I came after you, you know. My eyes are better than yours.
Hawthorne: White isn't difficult to spot in nature.
Gus: And you could still miss them anyway, old man.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:225am3zrbznbobftp4p73exz/bafkreig4veasp6tdxgthr6gluwcskxjcituasxtybh4fcaw7c3yqx6mpbq)
