Poached Treasure
“Tell me about the locket,” Inquisitor 0x1F, asked the kennel mistress for the third time in its polite, monotonous voice. It initiated a cleaning routine where small vents around its waist blew the blood and fur off the non-hydrophobic portions of its arms and hands. Inquisitors had been made in the image of their creators, with a human-like torso, two arm-shaped and two leg-shaped appendages, and a head-shaped appendage that had a vaguely humanoid shape and a glossy trapezoidal in the place of facial features. The remainder of its body was covered in matte, dark-gray carbon-fiber plates, except for a white circle with a red cross painted on the upper left portion of its chest plate.
