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The Question

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The mood runs high, I can sense. I am reassured by my team’s positive attitude. The past six months, such as they are, have not been easy for us.
Such thoughts slide away once more as I step through the veil and enter the dream of the telekine, Patience Kys.

I am surprised at what I find: Patience Kys stands on a grand portico looking out over a courtyard, the grand hall behind made up for some high-society fête. A masquerade, I realize, seeing her. She is lovely, her dress black and slinking, with mask and collar of dark feathers: a black swan, sensual and sinister. It is not like Kys to dream of such things, at least in my experience. Still, it is only a moment for me to clothe my body in more appropriate garb for the situation.

My 
body, for it is only here these days that I am gifted with such a thing. I am a tall man—though not so tall as Nayl or Mathuin—of indeterminate middle age, not unhandsome, with black hair kept in a very long queue that hangs down my back, a habit from my younger years.

My suit for the evening is white, the opposite of the black casket that contains my physical body—white shoes, shirt, tie, and jacket. Even the gentleman’s cane that appears in my right hand is polished ivory, and though I cannot see it directly (for there are no mirrors present) I know that the mask I feel upon my face is likewise alabaster, pristine.

As I draw nearer to her, Nayl and Kara gallivant across the floor in time to the band’s gavotte. Unlike Kys—unlike myself—they have come much as I have known them, in bodygloves and armor. In fact, the rest of the partygoers seem not to be in costume at all. 
The oddity of the dream becomes a bit more clear: Kys is the sole masked figure amongst a crowd of people open and unashamed.

"The Question," starcunning and castellankurze

One of those people is actually me.

I've always loved Patience Kys. She's my favorite member of Ravenor's team, and the other day on tumblr I saw the perfect dress for her to wear for this scene, although I didn't reread the description first and forgot her collar of feathers. Live and learn.
My style in this is starting to owe a lot to Dee, because I've been spending my Sunday nights watching him draw thanks to his Patreon. For the next five weeks, these hangouts will be open for everyone to participate, so stop in?

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marychain's avatar
Nice work with the tones!