Witness the Presentation
The next two Days pass quietly. Everyone is looking down at their own Work, Diversion, or Shoes. Säve barely appears at all — smiling faintly, and speaking faintly too. You have started on a tiny black Doll Dress that you fear might be perfect for her.
Everyone eats a lot of d’Spys and simple Vegetable-focused Dinners. Some fruit. At one point you take a turn visiting a local Market to collect Ingredients, in exchange for some of the Notes of Credit that occasionally appear on the Breakfast Table.
When the time comes for the Presentation, everyone gathers in the W’drawing Room. Säve descends from Upstairs with an Object, wrapped in Fabric, the black of it merging with the black of her form-following Garments, the combination making a weird shifting Silhouette. She is expressionless, having shed her usual blank Smile. She kneels at the gray Chaise Longue where she has been interviewing Nolle, and where Nolle is sitting now, pensive. She lowers the wrapped Object onto the Chaise Longue as an Offering onto an Altar.
Nolle silently unwraps the Bundle and at first it appears that nothing is inside. Then he lifts up a perfectly glossy black Mask. It appears as a perfect concave disk, like a Plane sliced a section off from a Sphere. Plus a broad triangle jutting off to one side, offering a perfect handle for Nolle to lift it, left-handed, to his face. Then three circular indentations become apparent, Eye-sized but none of them anywhere near the Eyes. Asymmetrical, with no apparent Design to their placement. Nolle seems to be able to see through it, somehow.