Daphne tried the regenerator a fourth time, adjusting the settings, and the reading refused to change no matter what she did to the machine feeding it. The device's hum droned on uselessly, throwing a faint, mocking light against his skin that had no business looking so confident about work it clearly wasn't doing.
Zaeryn watched her work for a moment, then let his focus drift inward instead, calling up the same translucent interface he'd used earlier in the fight. If nothing outside him could explain what was happening to his own body, maybe the system could.
*Why can't I be healed?* he asked it, silently, the question feeling strange even as he formed it.
The screen answered without hesitation, cold and precise and entirely uninterested in how any of it landed on him.
► [System Query: Diagnostic — Regenerative Failure]
► Cause: Core resonance shift detected, correlating with recent Rank-Up event (Hyper-Cognition: Class B).
