[PQ] there's magic in the making

JIAO

Distractedly, Jiao turned in Amalia's direction and informed her: "Jiao." As she worked, the task at hand quickly capturing her imagination despite the odd way she'd found herself doing it. In her mind, she justified it as a kind of job; clearly the humans would mess this up, so in order to not have the Gods smite them all, she had to add a little Fae magic.

"Ludo wants to look...like Safrin?" She repeated, sure Amalia had to have gotten it wrong, but the woman seemed sure, so Jiao shrugged and began to work. It was an easy enough brief, anyway. To mix Ludo and Safrin's aesthetics was not a challenge - rags, a shaggy cloak made of rough black fabrics with a layer of sparkling silk for stars, small golden embellishments on the hems serving for more celestial flair.

Rather swiftly she had in her hands the beginnings of a costume.

Leave all of my regrets to sink like shipwrecks
Through oceans dark