They wore a fitted suit sashed at the waist and sleek pants trimmed in satin, all of their outfit rendered in a rich, golden fabric that revealed an elusive pattern beneath the lamplight. Even their skin glowed with a gold luster, shifting as they sat. Kane sat, too, a bit dazzled by the person’s faultless face, which would not allow him to answer the question as to whether this person was a man, a woman, both, or neither. They slipped a pad of paper from their bag and peered at Kane through curled lashes. “What, you’ve never seen a man in mascara?” he said, answering the question on Kane’s
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