The Mask of Sumi (2014)
“East Africa Star as it neared Gibraltar on the following Tuesday, and stared at the incredible beauty of the mask on the dressing-table. The beauty was beyond question, yet there was something quite repellent about it.
It was a mask and yet there was something almost human in the set of the features.
Or something sub-human.
She did not touch it, just stared as if fascinated. It was in the shape of a round human face, with sockets for the eyes and a slash for the mouth; there was no ...opening for the nose, only a kind of protuberance in which the nose would fit.
The mouth opening was lined, at both top and bottom lip, with rubies. They glistened in the dressing-table light like blood. The eye-sockets were encrusted with emeralds, and in the centre of the brow was a big diamond, shimmering and glistening. The ears were made of some semi-precious stone which Melody did not recognise. Little clusters of rubies and sapphires covered the cheeks, and on the chin, like a clipped beard, was gold worked so beautifully that it looked almost like a man’s hair.MoreLess
It was a mask and yet there was something almost human in the set of the features.
Or something sub-human.
She did not touch it, just stared as if fascinated. It was in the shape of a round human face, with sockets for the eyes and a slash for the mouth; there was no ...opening for the nose, only a kind of protuberance in which the nose would fit.
The mouth opening was lined, at both top and bottom lip, with rubies. They glistened in the dressing-table light like blood. The eye-sockets were encrusted with emeralds, and in the centre of the brow was a big diamond, shimmering and glistening. The ears were made of some semi-precious stone which Melody did not recognise. Little clusters of rubies and sapphires covered the cheeks, and on the chin, like a clipped beard, was gold worked so beautifully that it looked almost like a man’s hair.MoreLess
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