“Veils,” Brandy says as each color settles over me. “You need to look like you’re keeping secrets,” she says. “If you’re going to do the outside world, Miss St. Patience, you need to not let people see your face,” she says. “You can go anywhere in the world,” Brandy goes on and on. You just can’t let people know who you really are. “You can live a completely normal, regular life,” she says. You just can’t let anybody get close enough to you to learn the truth. “In a word,” she says, “veils.”
