Editing Spruce (section)

==Powers==
Spruce can create orbs that have been variously described as 'cabbage[s] made of stone'<ref name="30.1"/> and origami onions;<ref name="7.8II e2">“I’d like to use my power to search you,” he said.  He held up his hand, and a shape manifested in his palm, swelling to take the form of something that looked like an origami onion, the layers folding back and into themselves.  “I would sweep it over you and become aware of anything on your persons.”<br/><br/>“No effect?” Capricorn asked.<br/><br/>“No,” the man said.<br/>[...]<br/>The origami onion unfolded into a whirling frame of lines and flat planes.  Where it passed over Chris’ leg, the leg on dirt, the dirt settled, flatting down, like there was a gravity or space warping effect in play.
<br/><br/>The man with the beard and parted hair walked behind Chris, the effect sweeping up and down Chris’ back.  He searched Chris’ midsection.<br/>[...]<br/>“There we are.  I see the shape of things, now,” the man with the parted hair murmured.  His eyes were alive behind the hard ivory-white mask.  “I can extend you a measure of trust, I think.  Do us a favor and stay still.  Give us no reason to be concerned.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/06/16/torch-7-8/ Excerpt] from [[Torch 7.8]]</ref> alternatively he creates projections that have differing effects.

These projections have an disintegration effect<ref name="30.2">[[Khepri|I]] used Marquis' power to block their paths with spiked barriers of bone.  When Lung, Spruce and Cinderhands <em>all</em> tore through the barriers, with claw, some sort of disintegration power and flame, respectively, I used Doormaker's power again. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/speck-30-2/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.2]]</ref> that can eat its way through thick bone and stone and presumably other materials. Its other showcased function can be used to provide a limited clairvoyant effect on a target, leaving them unharmed.<ref name="7.8II e2"/> He has been seen using it as a type of body search.
===Skill===
His facility, as in accuracy and control, with his power has decreased since his incarceration.<!---talk about the retired capes khepri finds and link it to his mistrust of his power-->
Given that Marquis trusted Spruce to cause a controlled collapse of the cave entrance and thus contain the newly ascendant [[Khepri]].<ref name="30.1"/> Two years is presumably enough for him to recover.