Scales

‘Will he get better?’ I asked. ‘Is it possible?’

‘Come here, child,’ Grimalkin told me. ‘Look at this . . .’

I approached the low trestle table where Tom lay. She pulled back the sheet and pointed to the place where the Kobalos’s sabre had transfixed his body. I had seen scales around Tom’s wound before, but now it had closed right up, sealed with scales.

Starblade Book 2 Chapter 2