20 lines
726 B
Markdown
20 lines
726 B
Markdown
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id: portrait-woman
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startsIn: "[[burial-gallery]]"
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initialPhase: watching
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---
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## watching
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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.
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## examine-portraits-resolved
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You examine the portraits one by one.
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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.
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## wrong-verb
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The veiled portrait watches you with patient, damaged eyes.
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## failed
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The veil lifts though nothing touches it. You step back into the root chamber before the face beneath can finish becoming familiar.
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