D Scion

> > “We’re hurting him,” she said.  “Kind of like how people hurt Gavel.  He’s… he’s got a defense, not making him invincible, but making him a living portal.  So you hurt him, and faster than you can do anything, he just swaps out the damaged material for material from… this bottomless well.”

> > A well?

> > [...]

> > Yet Scion appeared untouched.  He was cleaner, even.  Scoured of the blood and dirt.  Pristine.

> > “A bottomless well,” I said.

> > “Bottomless enough to matter,” Tattletale said.  “We take out pounds of flesh, but it’s really only removing a drop from the bucket at a time.  Then the ‘water’ flows out, high pressure, filling the gaps.”

> > “And morale plunges,” I said, staring out at the capes who were hanging back, staring at the scene rather than participating.

> Venom 29.2