something something shrike's (as far as we have seen) wounds healing shut and scarring/scabbing over very quickly something something something him not having any visible scarring or past wounds something something the doctor wiping away his partially healed over wound without even asking something something scars and body modifications being used commonly in tropes where a character uses them to tell stories about their past something something shrike's already unreliable memory something something shrike looking at his body and seeing nothing and remembering nothing when he thinks something should be there









