The Pack's Rebels
“And very familiar.”
Thaelen frowned, puzzled, but did not have the chance to ask as the human royal party had arrived, the Lord Jermyne amongst them. The queen wore a gown of rich purple and gold so stiff with embroidery and crusted with gemstones that Thaelen suspected that it would stand upright on its own. The woman within the cloth seemed washed out by the wealth wrapped around her although her face had been powdered and painted, and her hair styled elaborately to combat that diminishment.
It was a costume designed to impress the onlooker with her royal role, rather than to accentuate her beauty.