Dauntless absorbs Abalaster

But it had tried, and as with the helmet and the rest of that crystallized effort, he felt it come due.   Connections.  Enough connections to the nazi to pull him apart and draw the composite pieces into the crystallization.  All were broken connections, reaching out to other broken things to find the most tenuous purchase, but if the crystal was machinery and the agent the power source, then the connection let him have a hand on the wheel.

It was enough to keep himself up, once he’d grown enough that it was ungainly.

The connection came, and the connection stayed.

He saw enough.