Pallor. A sweet-sick smell.

Conservation of mass is not optional. Blood enters. Energy is stripped. The exhaust must leave. The bio-voltaic profile produces almost no urea and perhaps ten to twenty percent of baseline CO₂, but it produces porphyrin fragments in industrial quantity — the empty rings left when iron is torn out of haem. Hepatic haem oxygenase cannot keep up. Excess porphyrin is esterified into a waxy lipid matrix and excreted through modified sebaceous glands as a cutaneous oil. It films the entire skin. It is the pallor and the odour.

Mineral residue that cannot be oil is deposited in bone — the same osteoblastic programme that builds the thoracic armour. The organism wears its waste as plate and as sheen. Folklore called the sheen unholiness. It is an excretory pathway. It is not an optical coating.