Editing Tashlit (section)

==Description==
She is skinnier and sleeker than a human. Her body is made entirely of eyes of various sizes, from the size of a hand to the size of a fingertip, black with yellow irises that glimmer in the darkness.<ref>“Wallace would have to have responded to my messages at least once this last week for me to bring him here… and I don’t think we would, if we could.”<br><br>“Hmm,” Verona made a sound, glancing at Tashlit.<br><br>They sorted themselves out.  Bags down, things arranged.  Tashlit’s eyes glowed in the gloom, and Lucy knew that Verona had her own message that she’d sent out that hadn’t got a response in a week.  She’d asked Tashlit to be her familiar. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/21 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.4]]</ref> Her eyes move in unison and make a faint wet sloshing noise when they move. She drips an oily black liquid.<ref name=":4">She almost screamed, jumping out of her skin, when she realized she’d sat down next to something.  It was a girl, with skin that drooped on her like a bulldog, and a few gaping wounds at her chest and limbs, the skin hanging away.  She wore a dress that had probably looked nice, once, but had been stained black with the oily ichor that leaked from her wounds and orifices.<br><br>Everything that was ''inside'' the wounds, past the eye-holes of drooping eyelids, and inside her mouth, which perpetually drooped open, was as sleek as the skin wasn’t.  it was all black eyeballs with yellow irises, all interlocked together so the corner of one was nestled into others. All eyeballs moved in unison, and the sound of them all moving was like a faint slosh of water.  They flicked over to looking the other way, and again, there was that faint slosh.<br><br>The girl held a finger to her lips.  A fingernail was missing, and an eye peeked out from the nail bed, the edges of that nail bed bleeding black ooze.<br><br>[...]<br><br>Verona looked at the Other sitting next to her.  It sat with all of its eyes, some as long as Verona’s hand, some as big as a thumbprint, fixed forward.  A dribble of black ichor hung from a nostril, growing longer without breaking off as an actual droplet. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/10 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.3]]</ref><ref name=":2" /> Her eyes can close independently.<ref name=":1" />

She still wears her old skin as a human girl, with her true form visible through the eye and mouth holes, as well as through gaping holes in her chest and limbs<ref name=":4" /> and some holes where her fingertips are missing.<ref name=":5">The girl waited until the light had moved on, then reached out, in the general direction of Kennet.  She made clutching motions with her hand, opening and closing them.<br><br>“You want something?”<br><br>The girl nodded, eyeballs moving this way and that.  She brought her hands up, one with barely any skin on it, only two fingertips remaining attached, the hand sleek beneath.  She pressed index fingers and thumbs together and made a diamond shape.<br><br>“Diamond?”<br><br>So-so gesture, hand wobbling.<br><br>“Jewel?”<br><br>The girl nodded. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/10 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.3]]</ref> The skin has a dress on over it, stained with her black liquid.<ref name=":4" />

She gives off a smell of ammonia.<ref>It wasn’t a long wait.  Verona’s sense of smell struggled to recover, and she was increasingly aware of an ammonia smell from the girl. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/10 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.3]]</ref>

She doesn't speak or write,<ref name=":6" /><ref>“Did you guys manage to get a means of communication going?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“She doesn’t write, I think she lost the ability when she changed.  But we were working out some ways.  Alpeana said if she could finish her rounds here instead of dipping back home, she’d try to bring me and Tashlit together in dreams so we could have a conversation.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/05/ Excerpt excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.2]]</ref> but she can understand English and communicate somewhat with gestures.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":0" /> [[Verona]] speculated at one point that she might be trying to communicate using some kind of code of rapid eye movements,<ref>The girl’s eyeballs sloshed around, moving in what could almost be a language, like Morse code, except there were more things than dashes and dots in there.<br><br>“Can’t understand you, and you need to be quiet,” Verona whispered, as a flashlight shone on… not ''them'', but on their general section of forest. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/10 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.3]]</ref> It is possible that her family can understand such communication.