"Panca, the mechanic, emerging from the engine room. Her long, slender fingers were dense with weaves of muscle, surprisingly strong. The jeweled black circle in her forehead flushed with light and reflections, stark in the veiled blankness of her face. Hues of ocean and summer green swam through white. “Is that… an eye?” “To feel, not see. Your eyes’re for solid things. Mine’re for numinous things. Saisn exist in sense-sea. A textured world with broader sensory detail than yours.”Panca unwound her veil. At her forehead, her skull folded open around the embedded black core, sheeny and multifaceted like an insect eye. Her two real eyes beneath it were entirely black except for white limbal rings around each iris, which flicked as she examined wide-eyed Caiden. The fine muscles in her face scrunched like a fixed scowl under her velvet-soft, grayish-purple skin. Her flat nose had tiny teardrop nostrils, and her wide ears lay tight against her scalp. In place of hair, chevron ridges at the top of her forehead swept over her skull and down her neck like plaits."
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