#earthrunes

"If thou preferest a different hue, I can, in a fit of offended artiste pique, make another " Vasthi says "But , of course, hiring me gives the full effect of my temperament."

Coradel's expression reflects pleasure at what she sees in the mirror, and she moves a bit, testing the flow of the dress. "No...you're right, the color works. And the lace...yes, this is beautiful." She considers. "Vashti, would you occasionally be able to make something for August as well?"

Zara... giggles?

A surprised look at Zara. "I don't mean a dress for him!"

Cough. "Ahem. Pardon."

Vashti fights too loud a smile then pokes her sister "Shhh stop doing thy silly sluagh pranks to distract" then she says to Coradel, "May haps a poet shirt of sort, with a musketeer's air?"

"Yes, something like. And...something formal as well. His court garb is fine, but it is a bit humble, I think."

"Embroidered with oak leaves, aye? Silver-gilt with blue veins..."

"Such herculean tasks... " the pooka says "Can be endured"

"Oh, yes...perfect."

"Tails?"

"Tails...hm...I'll have to think about that. Vashti...I think it would be my great pleasure to hire you as court seamstress."

A siiigh. "Oh, Coradel, remind me to introduce you to Jane Austen..."

Vashti smiles "I shall need Thursdays off" A cough "Pardon, forgive, my tongue is always precise.. unlike my shakey fingers when I sew"

"Oh? Jane Austin wore tails?"

Vashti winces abit at something there but tries to hide it quickly

"Well, I think she was, if anything, a boggan, not a pooka..."

"Well..." Vashti says then decides to let the boggans have her.

Coradel smiles a bit at the sisters as they go back and forth, then suggests, "Shall we try another? The silver-grey?"

"Oh, this one is of a light material indeed.... you shall be almost as if nude... "

"But no, you must needs see a gentleman in proper regency dress. Ah, Earl has this purple suit for when he is unseelie..."

"Alas, you and your joker attractions." A tisk from the moth "Sister, red and blue need not thrust at each other in the heat of merger every time they met."

"Pish, both are improved by the other."

"You say thrust as if it's a bad thing," she says to Vashti as she slips out of the rose and into the silver. "Ohhh...yes, this is delightful. I might choose to wear nothing underneath."

Zara goes PINK.

"It does seem to lend itself to Gaia's lines" the pooka nods

Another turn in front of the mirror. "Oh, yes...oh, I think August will like this one, yes."

"For me to wear...." she clarifies with a smile to Zara. "Not him."

Vashti nods "Oh it's possible he shall hate it so much that he rips it from you"

That gets a proper smile. "Well...it's a good thing I'll have a seamstress on staff for repairs. Or replacement."

Piiiiink.

A curtsy

Vashti looks sympathetically at her sister "See, red hues by themselves are not so bad"

"Have you anything in green...?"

"Oh... I fear all I have is forest with emerald echoes.. no green at all" She moves things to find a garment fitting so.

And goes on for a time as the three discuss matters of what to wear for the Baroness.

(End scene)