
“THAT OUTFIT of yours satisfies even MY exacting tastes. WELL DONE!”

HER EMINENCE extends her hand in offering, for either a kiss or a show of DISRESPECT, fingers loosely curled downward, face set in the mask EXPECTED of a GRACIOUS HOST. The Kiryuin Manor all around bursts with life – clinking glasses, bubbling voices, business talks tossed back and forth.
“How DARLING are your clothes,” She praises, with no TINGE of sarcasm. “The EPOCH of another ERA, indeed. I only HOPE that they are REVOCS fabric. Such is the FINEST.”

“REN,” RAGYO KIRYUIN addresses, back straight, lips twisting into a warmer smile than she might have AWARDED anyone else; for was this not a ‘ CHILD ‘ of hers, however loosely the term could be applied to a mere GUINEA PIG? Her fingers curl, asking for the girl to step forward – to be EXAMINED by her own hand. “Come here.”

RAGYO KIRYUIN’S eyes pervade the room, striking across it; the light EMANATING from behind her, and radiating forward – giving her the same BRILLIANCE as the mogul demands. She was the EMPRESS of a clothing empire, and being looked at the way she was, with such MASSIVE disrespect? It RANKLED her.
“I PUT the QUESTION to you once more,” She addressed the room, eyes honing in on the individual in the very center of it. “WHAT IS CLOTHING?”