Visitor in the Knight
@scarredlitany
It was not often anymore that Ser Charibert of the Heavens’ Ward found himself being presented with an Inquisitory case. Despite his former position, or perhaps because of, few were the Inquisitors willing to admit that they needed the aid of the most skilled catcher of heretics in Ishgard.
But just today, one of his former apprentices - now a blundering Inquisitor in his own right - had approached him with a most curious case. One of the adventurers who had aided in the battle upon the Steps of Faith had been allowed by Ser Aymeric into Ishgard, only to be recognized by members of the Dragoons corps...
Charibert had smirked at his apprentice upon finishing the report. So the adventurer had been discovered as an Ishgardian who had fled from battle. That Halone would allow a coward to win his trial had caused no small talk about it within the Inquisitory, but Charibert was not one to doubt the Fury. She had her reasons to allow such a thing, and the proof was right here in his hands. Halone wanted him and no other Inquisitor to catch this heretic.
So once the moon was high in the snowy sky, Charibert made his way toward the Forgotten Knight, where a Temple Knight - under secret and divine Heavens’ Ward orders - had already inquired about the adventurer’s lodgings. He prowled through the inn with a measured stride, catlike in his lack of footsteps. No one would dare stop the Stern while he was on duty, and no one was present to see him slip into the adventurer’s room.
The man was slumbering in peace in the sparsely decorated room, a peace that Charibert very much intended to wreck. He positioned himself at the man’s bedside, such that he was looming over him as menacingly as possible and would be the first thing the man saw upon waking, then reached down and slapped the sleeping man across the face.
“Scream and the entire inn burns, innocent strangers and all.”