The veil provokes the question, is she widowed? Disfigured? In a sense both and neither. She has been taken bodily from her people, and she mornes for them, and the tattoo on her jaw is all she has left of them, but to the city folk it is an abomination of flesh insulting to the eye. But she will not have it gone, so the veil remains.
Paddy Dobson
1st July 2024