---
id: portrait-woman
startsIn: "[[burial-gallery]]"
initialPhase: watching
---

## watching
One ruined portrait has not lost its eyes. The woman in it watches from behind a funeral veil, though the paint around her face has split to canvas.

## examine-portraits-resolved
You examine the portraits one by one.

Damage has made a family resemblance where blood may not have. Then the veiled woman's mouth, still painted, shows you the part you did not want to see: your own expression, waiting inside hers.

## wrong-verb
The veiled portrait watches you with patient, damaged eyes.

## failed
The veil lifts though nothing touches it. You step back into the root chamber before the face beneath can finish becoming familiar.