Examination complete, Philomel lay her head down, her long neck coiling in a half circle around him as she did. She blinked, rustling her wings. "It's a defense mechanism, as far as we've been able to discern," she explained, and concentrated--she could assume the Mime voluntarily now, though it still happened involuntarily too.
Her fringes and her wings started to fade first, a quickly creeping invisibility that rendered her invisible in the course of a few minutes...except for the eye facing him, a disembodied bronze orb that disappeared when she blinked. "The Mime," she said simply, sounding, perhaps, just a little smug.
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Date: 2008-10-03 03:52 am (UTC)Her fringes and her wings started to fade first, a quickly creeping invisibility that rendered her invisible in the course of a few minutes...except for the eye facing him, a disembodied bronze orb that disappeared when she blinked. "The Mime," she said simply, sounding, perhaps, just a little smug.