It looked like a work of art, but no one there found it beautiful.
Its whole body looked like a man had been made from black metal and then stretched too tall. The chest was broad and thick like a fortress gate, while the waist looked too narrow for something that heavy. Its arms were long, each one ending in five thick fingers that looked more like short blades than human hands. The legs were the worst part. They were bent a little backward at the joints, making it feel less like a knight in armor and more like some hunting creature trying to copy a human shape.
At the center of its face was no mouth, no nose, and no eyes as humans knew them. There was only a smooth head with a single red slit running across where the eyes should have been. That red slit glowed brighter and dimmer every few seconds, as if the thing were breathing through light.
