Editing Verona Hayward (section)

==Appearance==
Verona is just under five feet tall, and just over ninety pounds.<ref>Verona was just barely over ninety pounds, and just a hair under five feet. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/ Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.6]]</ref> She's the shortest of the [[Kennet Trio]].  She has black hair and grey eyes.<ref name="WB description">'''Verona'''<br>
Verona is thirteen, with grey eyes, a paler complexion, and a somewhat unruly/scruffy (stray hairs/strands or such) French bob with black hair.  She has large eyes that may have eyeliner on them.  She's petite, a bit shorter than Avery.<br>
Her clothes are on the packing up extra materials, like the others.  Stripes, whites and blacks, lavender and black, and a lot of clothes that most girls might buy because they think it's neat or unique and then never bring themselves to wear (incidentally, she remarks that she collects a lot of accessories, but doesn't end up using them - maybe a choker or bracelet, but that's about it).  Shoeswise she might haves slip-ons.  She doesn't care about shoes because her inclination is to dwell more on things that appear in the mirror, and shoes don't do that - she dresses for herself, not others (in stark contrast to Lucy).<br>
Verona's mood ranges from the neutral to mercurial, depending.  Serious, scared, stressed, focused?  Her mouth is in a firm line, her already large eyes open wide.  Happy with friends or into the practice?  Laughing, talking, whatever.  She may be sitting, leaning, fidgeting, or distracted at a given point in time, if she's not engaged by her friends.<br>
Her Sight turns her eyes purple, with the irises becoming like reflective circles, catching the light in gloom like a Cat's might.  Her hat is a matte black has a bit more flop to it, and her matching cape is straighter, but has a portion that cups the bend of the shoulders.  Her mask is a black cat's mask, with white highlights at the eyes to make it not disappear entirely in darkness, and similar for the pink of the nose and white, upside-down 'Y' shape of the mouth.  She wears the dog tags at her neck, with a long chain that loops once around the neck, and some other decorations like a choker or other thin chains.
<br>-[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/izdkpo/is_there_a_list_of_features_or_a_comprehensive/g6ire33/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

She cuts her own hair, maintaining it in a french bob.<ref>After a quick glance in the mirror, she grabbed her scissors and tidied her bangs.  She picked up a hand mirror to fix a few stray hairs at the back.<br>[...]<br>“Scissors?” he asked.<br><br>Oh, she was still holding them.  She touched them to her hair.  As part of the back to school shopping, her mom had taken her to a stylist to get a french bob and she’d been trimming it herself to keep it in approximately the same style ever since. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]</ref> She wears a lot of stripes, black, white and purple; often with a choker, the occasional bracelet or decorative chain, and slip-on shoes.<ref name="WB description" /> Her few outfits include too-tight black jeans, acid-washed jeans with holes at the knees, and several sweaters with horizontal stripes on them.<ref name=":0" /> Once she's given the magic dog tag she wears it on a long chain around her neck.<ref name="WB description" />

When Practicing she wears a simple black [[cat mask]] made by Lucy, with white highlights; a somewhat floppy matte black witch's hat, and a long matte-black cloak that cups her shoulders.<ref>Verona had put her bag down, and now she unzipped it.  She pulled out the mask.  A deer mask, carved out of wood and painted with tan at the nose and around the eyes, a speckled darker brown at the edges and ears.  She handed it to Avery.<br>
Avery handed Lucy a fox mask, painted orange.<br>
“Damn,” Lucy muttered.  “You’re ''way'' better at carving than I am, Ronnie.  That deer mask is great.  Sorry yours is…”<br>
Verona shook her head.  A black cat mask.  It was simple, but she liked it.  She hugged it to her chest with one hand while offering Lucy the hat she’d made herself.  Each of them had a gift for the other two.  And for themselves, short cloaks.<br>
<br />- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/lost-for-words-1-1/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]</ref><ref>They’d shared online videos about the mask carving and a website with tailoring templates for the making of the hats.  The differences in mask were intentional, any differences in the hats accidental.  Verona’s hat was just a bit floppier at the brim.<br>
When they’d done the search for the capes, they’d agreed to use the first blueprint on the list.  They’d been halfway when they had discovered the cape designs were all different.  Not that it mattered.  Verona’s was closer to a cloak, and Lucy’s closer to a shawl, it was so short.  Avery’s looked like more of a cape, with a wreath around the neck and shoulders.  She wore it ajar, so it covered most of one arm.<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/lost-for-words-1-2/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.2]]</ref><ref name="WB description" /> When she uses her [[Sight]], her eyes often seem to flash purple<ref>Lucy looked over, and tapped her finger to her lower eyelid.<br><br>Verona’s eyes turned purple in a way that caught the light.  Avery’s eyes got misty, literally, in a way that brought out details, rather than hid them.  They looked. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/09 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.1]]</ref><ref>“Cheating?” Verona asked.  Her eyes flashed that weird almost-purple color. [...] She was aware of Verona and Lucy giving her concerned looks.  In that one corner of Avery’s eye where her Sight was stuck, she saw Verona’s eyes as purple again.  Lucy’s as red where they should be white. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/30 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.7]]</ref><ref>“Nah,” Verona said.  She looked off to the side, and her eyes turned purple. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/23 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.5]]</ref><ref>Verona’s eyes flashed purple, as she joined Lucy in walking a circuit around the little building. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/04 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.8]]</ref><ref>“Talking to spirits,” Verona murmured, pointing at the same group.  Her eyes glowed purple, which radiated out into her eyeshadow. [...] Verona jumped forward, onto the back of Mr. Cold Tears.  Her eyes were wide and violet in the gloom. [...] “Eyes open.”<br><br>Avery’s eyes flashed, the mist sweeping over them, in a way that made the outline and darkness of the irises stand out in even dimly lit gloom.  Verona’s eyes turned purple. [...] Verona’s expression was blank.  Her eyes lacked the purple that had dominated them most of the night. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/25 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.3]]</ref><ref name="1.ze1" /> and her irises may become circles that catch the light, like a cat's in the dark.<ref name="WB description" /> In full garb as a practitioner, Verona wears a [[cat]] mask that was created for her by Lucy, as well as a witch's hat and cloak.<ref name="WB description" /> In certain magical contexts, her body is cloaked in supernaturally heavy shadows and her mask appears real, like an anthropomorphic cat woman.<ref name="1.ze1">Three figures were approaching.  They could almost be mistaken for the children that were scattered everywhere, but they were too animated, and too curious about their surroundings, looking around and looking up at the moon, where the children of this place were focused wholly on the ritual’s participants.  They couldn’t be Witnesses, because they had faces…<br><br>Animal faces, two of them wearing wide-brimmed hats, the other with a cord tying her hat to her neck.<br><br>The cat-faced girl had shadow clinging close to her cloak, to the point it was hard to make her out in the dark, not helped by the dark fur of her face.  Her eyes flashed violet as she looked over everyone and everything.  Her cloak was pulled over her hat, brim and point swept back, and made the hood more pointy behind her head. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/06 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.z]]</ref><ref>She lifted up the dense, metal dollhouse, setting it in a metal box with about 20 segments.  There were a horrendous number of figures, pieces of furniture, accessories, animals, and little colored blocks inside, sliding around, rolling down stairs, and falling out.  The box itself had zipper-like creases at the edges of each segment, knitting them together.  She centered the dollhouse and then collected the fallen bits, pushing them in through windows.<br>
[...]<br>
She whispered, “Show me the three girls with animal faces,” and opened it up.<br>
Three simple figurines with rectangular blocks for bodies were topped with the heads of a fox, cat, and deer.  They were within a cabin with an open top.  Ribbons filled the space, tying to a center mass.  A circular bit of wood, shallow, sat in the center.<br>
There was no sign of the other figurines that had been within, or the diner, or the old house.<br>
“Why animal faces?” she asked.<br>
“If it’s this omnipresent, it may be the Sight equivalent of labeling something at the root level.  I could see changing or obfuscating your name, taking on a title as part of the implement or demesnes rituals, but faces… I don’t know.  If it was one individual, I could say it’s a Host with an exceptionally strong rider, or a practitioner with a familiar strong enough it was leaking through, but I’d expect to see that leak somewhere else.”<br>
<br>- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/stolen-away-2-z/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]</ref><ref>The room’s appearance shifted, to become something very much like the spirit world Lucy had visited together with Verona and Avery.  The floor was covered in an inch of water, littered with flower petals.  She could see the nose of the ‘mask’ she wore in spirit, and her hair was far longer, pale pink tendrils blowing across her shoulder.<br>
Other students changed as well.  Avery had the deer mask.  Jessica had two silver lines running down from her eyes, her skin and hair beaded with moisture.  Dom, Talia, and Jorja weren’t as affected as some, but Lucy could see how Dom’s hands were paler.  Talia resembled her doll and her doll resembled her.  Jorja had little pastel pellets littering her hair and shoulders, in stark contrast to how dark her clothes and hair were, and how grim her expression was.<br>
“Spirit is one source of power.  Basic, simple, easy, but it can be hard to negotiate for the particulars, or to control the fine results.”<br>
[...]<br>
The lighting changed.  Everything became a slow-motion flow of smoke, but where transparent wisps overlapped, they painted silhouettes and details.<br>
She wore the fox mask here.  More smoke traced the outline of her cape.<br>
“This is what one might see with a particular variety of the Sight, ignoring connections.  Lucy here-”<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/leaving-a-mark-4-6/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.6]]</ref>