More on Penny's healing

She almost missed the next words, lost in the vivid memory.

“So he really…” She heard her father sitting down. “You checked?”

“I did. The wounds healed. Not entirely—the effect eventually wore off—but most of the damage was gone by the time she was reached. And it was new material, things that hadn’t been in place before; not just steel but new wiring that hadn’t been in her body before and more. She healed.”