Editing Queen Sootsleeves (section)

==Appearance==
Her appearance is always distinctly tatterdemalion regardless of the style; when she first manifested she wore a silverware crown, rag-made outfit that still invoked nobility,<ref name=":0">The woman astride the horse looked like a queen, but the particulars were all shabby and improvised.  A crown of silverware, a complicated raiment and gown in what Verona presumed were bright colors- made of rags and trash.<br><br>She still held a torch.  She still carried a spear with a tattered banner attached to it.  For all that she was dressed in garbage and things, the look on her face was intense. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/13 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.5]]</ref> after adapting to modern times she took on an appearance that evoked current [[Wikipedia:Hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipster trends]].<ref name=hip>“But we’ll need to adapt,” Queen Sootsleeves declared, before throwing down her torch with unnecessary force.<br><br>The torch flared bright, blinding Verona momentarily.  The eyeliner didn’t help with light.<br><br>The Queen sat within a fancy old car.  Her subjects were still rats, but the children were now dressed in ''modern'' rags, at least.  Sootsleeves herself was meant to look dirty and shabby, but it really looked like hipster chic with a hipster car, scratched sunglasses included. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/13 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.5]]</ref> 

Her ragamuffin subjects include rats, children, and beggars, many of them carry standards, torches, and have soot stains on them.<ref>They came through the two doors into the room.  Mice and rats carrying flags.  Children in rags.  Men and women with heavy bandages, smelling of something herbal that did a bad job of covering up the smell of flesh that seemed to be rotting alive.  Many carried torches.  Most were smudged black, like they’d been playing in a pile of coal.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/13 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.5]]</ref>