The metal-eaters were strange creatures.
When I, Tabletina and a dozen assisting Physicians began an autopsy of one of these creatures, it took me a while to realize what they were just based on this one's looks.
Admittedly, anything would look stranger and harder to recognize when it was splayed on a surgical table.
The metal-eater was around the size of a Worker Bee, and had a thin, slim, snake-like body covered in skin so pale I could see every blood vessel underneath. Its head ended with a disturbingly human-like face with a wide mouth full of flat, square teeth. The creature's eyes were facetious and bulging, which made its nose look almost inexistent by comparison.
A part of the metal-eater's skull was caved in, and a piece of metal debris was sticking out—but otherwise the body was only bruised in places. The rest of the bodies were in a much worse shape.
