Chapter 487: Wedding
Tala felt tingles all throughout her body, and it wasn’t from the paint that was slowly being applied across her bare skin.
One of many paintbrushes floated around her, occasionally dipping into a small cup of sapphire blue paint.
It moved not at her behest—nor by her will—but at Terry’s.
Apparently, many of the times over the last year that he’d been ‘hunting,’ he had, instead, been practicing controlling items within Kit in order to help her with this day.
Alat had hidden that fact from her, and Tala couldn’t have been more fine with that deception.
The terror bird, for his part, flickered around her in a blur, looking at every angle as he applied her paint according to his desired pattern.
Tala had asked if she had any say, and he had flatly rejected her attempts at swaying what he was doing.
Instead of going for a faux spellform look, he had decided to lean into a different part of her nature, one that they shared.
He was creating claw marks in sets of three rends. The effect of which was to make her look as if she had sapphire under her skin, which had been torn open in places to reveal her true, gem nature.