Let Freedom Ring

The woman before you beyond perfect, so beautiful it's nearly impossible to look away from her. The most eye-catching feature are her twilight purple eyes, clear and perfect like deeply colored amethysts and framed with impossibly long black lashes, and they seem to glimmer in even the dimmest lighting. Long, flowing black hair, so dark it has a blue-ish tinge, shimmers down her back to below her waist, ending in sinuous tendrils at mid-thigh. The silken strands move around her gently but without a hint of frizz or a single hair out of place, curling slightly across her forehead to the right from its off-center part. Her skin is so pale it's almost white, with not a single birthmark, freckle or mole to blemish its perfection and her features are perfectly symmetrical. Her lips are naturally a deep red, and her cheeks flush a delicate pink.

Her form follows her face in matching the ideal of beauty. She stands 5'8" in her three-inch heels, her form a magnificent hourglass. She has perfect posture and moves gracefully, every step and gesture having an almost choreographed feel. She wears a slightly unusual necklace, a silver chain made of star-shaped links hangs just to her collar bone, the pendant a golden sun and silver moon intertwined with one another, and her earrings are simple silver crescents. On her left ring finger she wears a ring that is a black star sapphire, surrounded by diamonds that circle it before becoming a swirl outward which looks like a comet; nested perfectly against it is a gold band with tiny inset sapphires and clear turquoise topazes.

She is dressed in a flowing dress of silvery silk with black embroidery. It hugs her form to the waist before flairing out and falling almost to the floor; the neck is a fairly deep V-neck, displaying some of her perfect curves and framing the lovely necklace there. The dress is sleeveless, displaying her delicate, pale arms in their graceful movements. She often wears over this a simple but perfectly fitted black suit jacket. On her feet are shiny black leather stiletto heels with silver soles.

Background

Details to come. Almost certainly something about a legal career.

The being before you beyond perfect, so beautiful it's nearly impossible to look away from her. It takes a moment to notice anything else about her, and when you do it is as if you are seeing a creature who has stepped straight out of a fairytale. Her long black hair falls to the middle of her thighs in waves of perfect, silken strands dark as the night sky, with ripples of blue and occasionally other colors dancing through it. Her full lips are red as blood and her skin is impossibly pale with a faint shimmer to it, as if she were standing in moonlight, her features perfectly symmetrical. Her deep purple eyes seem to pull you in, the color shifting and swirling with stars and stardust that give off faint light all on their own, forming perfect nebulae in place of her irises.

Her form follows her face in matching the ideal of beauty. What you can see of her form is an entirely perfect hourglass. She has perfect posture and moves gracefully, every step and gesture having an almost choreographed feel. She wears a slightly unusual necklace, a silver chain made of star-shaped links hangs just to her collar bone, the pendant a golden sun and silver moon intertwined with one another. Her earrings are bright against the darkness of her hair, simple silver crescents of perfectly cut diamonds that catch light and hold it, glowing with their own rainbow fire. On the ring finger of her left hand she wears a strange ring, the central stone of which appears to draw light into it as if it were a black hole, while around it swirls a bright comet of light. Beside this is a simple band of darkness with tiny blue stars glowing within, a mix of deep sapphire blue and a pale, almost translucent blue that glitter against the darkness of the band they are set in.

Her dress is made of shimmering silver, the upper half appearing to be moonbeams and shadow, shifting and changing but always brilliant silver. At her waist, the dress flows into a swirling mist that glows with the same pattern of moonlight and shadow but swirls and changes, hiding her form from there to the floor much of the time.

Background

Background to come. Maybe.

The Fae

Jimmy - My husband, my shadow, my heart and soul. My equal and my opposite. I do think some people are hearing our message tied up with our relationship; we'll have to clarify some things for others. Soon.
Faith Lynn - My dear friend and trusted advisor. Don't lose your way in the woods.
Temple - I trust you implicitly, and while I hope it never comes to pass, I trust you to carry out the final duty your oaths bind you to. It's a weight off my mind. On the other hand, the less I know about your business, the easier it is to have proper plausible deniability. I hate to see you in so much pain, but I'm not the cure for this disease. You'll have to find that on your own.
Lucas - Even with the debt between us, I'm not sure I trust you at my back. With my life, absolutely - but there are things more fragile, more difficult, more valuable or more precious than life, certainly to me than my life. If I can trust you with those things, I will be pleasantly surprised. We'll have to test this, soon.
Grania - I can't wait to hear you sing, and I'm pleased you're willing to sing at our establishment; what little I've heard of your music was entrancing. Part of me has trouble really processing how young you are.
Lizzy - You and your sister remind me of someone dear who I trust. It makes me suspicious, the timing is too convenient. But we can definitely use your skills, and I'm sure my James can find a use for those extra talents of yours.
Laura - The timing of your sister and your walking into my life just as someone who resembles you and who truly earned my trust walked out. But it'll be nice to have someone to help me when our kind do something dangerous and get into trouble with the Iron Law. And I'm sure James can find a use for those other talents of yours.

The Prodigals

Neriyan - Kin to a dinosaur? Ok… Veterinarian might be the more useful half of what you are - but I could be wrong.
Yassamin - Like your sister, I think your job as a courier might be more use to me than what you are - whatever that is.
Paul - You married a child, and you pimp her out, yet you don't feel static to me. Are you mad? That would explain much.
Yesenia - Please stay away from me. Something about the feel of your eyes on my skin makes it crawl, and I have a feeling too much time in your presence would only enhance the discomfort.

The Dreamers

Tiffany - Are you even legal? Our conversation left me with some concerns for your welfare - and intelligence. Although a part of me never tires of that terrified look from my husband's acquaintances when they hear what I do for a living.

• LEGAL - Ria is a JUDGE. Legal issues? Need to offer a bribe to fix a case she is sitting on? Risky business trying to bribe a judge, most of the rumors say she's clean - most of them…
• EVENTS - As co-owner of the Silver Dragon Hotel and Casino, Ria can arrange for all sorts of events to be held in the hotel's rather massive reception area - anything from concerts to charity events to weddings. She and her husband seem to be doing very well since the casino opened, and the Grand Opening is rumored to have been a huge success.
• LEADERSHIP - As one of the local leaders of the fae, Ria is someone who can make deals on their behalf. And as the local population has grown rather quickly, this might become something more necessary. Although first you need to find out that she is.
• GORGEOUS - Ria herself is inhumanly beautiful (App 7), and while her engagement and wedding rings and beautiful and rather prominent, that doesn't stop people from approaching her. Her warm personality has a tendency to turn icy with those who won't take no for an answer, but that doesn't seem to stop them.