![]() ![]() ![]() The Beauty Consultant was still absorbed in dismembering the rose. She had inherited him from her mother, the Lady Despina. The queen was not sure how old he was-perhaps a hundred, perhaps older. He had a shriveled bald head and hooded black eyes. He was a tiny man, no taller than her dressing table. He was plucking apart a longstemmed red rose.īut the Beauty Consultant was engrossed in his rose. She turned to the Beauty Consultant, who was sitting on his favorite stool. She ran her fingers over the fawn collar. The onyx was the color of her long, shiny black hair the rubies were the color of her lips. The collar was pure fawn, and the buttons, onyx inlaid with rubies. It was a long, wonderfully soft gown made out of black velvet. She took one of them off its hanger and examined it. The dresses on the far right were for funerals and executions. Then day clothes, then hunting clothes, then clothes for brisk exercise. On the left were the ones for affairs of state. QUEEN VEDA, THE SECOND MONARCH OF THE ROYAL kingdom of Ran, stood inside her enormous closet and surveyed the contents. ![]()
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