"I have not seen it," she says. "But Gideon spoke of it. It's quite large, with multiple thick support limbs and spear-like forelimbs. It is made of regenerating bone, so it can stab with these and leave them behind, or hurl them. It also generates chains and tentacles of bone."

"I don't think a piercing weapon would have much impact at all." She has a lot of experience with skeletons.