Part Three: Numb

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This is a canvas oil painting, six feet long by three feet tall, framed in
ebony with carved ravens flocking around inlaid silver skulls, the eyes of the
ravens set with rubies, and the skulls set with aquamarines. The eyes seem to
follow you wherever you go. How ominous.

The painting depicts a beautiful temple, with seamless, white walls of ice,
with thick clusters of beautiful, yet deadly icicles hang in the four corners
of the Narthex. Snow falls thickly here, despite it being indoors.
Floating in the air, descending is a radiant, human-looking woman with dark,
thickly curled hair, wearing nothing but an open white cloak about her shoulders
and a short skirt tied about her waist. It would seem that the cold doesn't
touch her, for she seems to not fully understand being dressed for the snow.
She has an emotionless expression, but is reaching down before a kneeling,
female, mahogany catfolk. The catfolk's face is hidden, as she faces the
woman.
The floating woman is reaching down to the catolk, placing one hand on her
shoulder, where her fur seems to be turning snow white, outward from her
hand.

A brass placard along the bottom edge of the frame reads in cursive writing,
"Part Three: Numb", by Kiyaneh Venglacies. Painted on Solaria 7, 420.

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