Endbringers

She approached the bedside, attention on the phone.  She held it out for him to read.

A notepad executable read:
hes here.  defenses crumbled in a minute.  rime dead.  melted off more than half his outer body and he still fighting.  last stand to protect hosp’l for evac and he cutting them down

Chevalier shut his eyes.  We lost.

Tattletale was already typing again.  Her expression was grim as she focused on the phone.

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he still at full strength.  shouldn’t be.  he’s an onion, inner rings progressively tougher.  next 15% way tougher than rest combined.

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if outer body is like this then why does he have it?  useless.

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outer body is cosmetc only.  why?  because he supposed to scare us.  behemoth was fashioned.  unnatural life.