Unnamed agent

An animate statue, features worn smooth — a clockspur duelist, broad as a gate. Clad in meteoric slag welded into a cuirass; fresh dents hammered roughly flat. Wearing a visorless helm with a torn plume; bearing dueling needles as long as forearms. Marked by a shadow that hangs a beat behind it; it carries an iron crown at the belt, never worn. Wreathed in drifting luminous spores, its colors bone-white and dried-blood umber. Caught set, weight low and even — serene and absolute. The mark rides the left side; its relic is worn low, trimmed with a full ring of salt-white beads.