She was tall and slender, with clear skin, narrow black eyebrows, and thick, deep onyx hair. She wore part of it up, wrapped around a small, scroll-shaped golden ornament with two long hairpins holding it in place. The rest tumbled down behind her neck in small, tight curls. Even twisted and curled as it was, it came down to her shoulders—if left unbound, it would reach past the middle of her back. She had a squarish face and discriminating pale violet eyes. She was in her mid-thirties. See more