The Adorned
“Tallisk, it seemed, had seen no need to get up with the rest of us. I heard his snoring reverberate through the house as Doiran laid out our clothes and cosmetics. Between him and Isadel, they began to primp me: my hair was short, for a Keredy man’s, but though they could not weave it through with ribbons they combed and oiled it until it passed muster.Isadel’s face was pale with powder, and her mouth had been painted a very vivid scarlet while her eyes were shadowed with smoky grey. I myself h...ad been powdered, though only lightly. Still, the feel of the makeup lay heavy and unfamiliar on my skin. We both still wore our thin, white dressing robes. My eyes had been colored, very lightly, with a shimmery green pigment. Isadel had informed me it had been made from crushed beetles—something I had not quite needed to know.At last, the time came to dress. Isadel went first, with the ease of long experience. Her skirt fit her as if it had been stitched onto her hips, low-waisted and high-slit, a twisting river of velvet.MoreLess
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