Whatever else the Lip was, it was also a maze. There was no way she would find the still-nameless man she was looking for by wandering around and hoping for blind luck. She needed another face, and for that, she needed either privacy and a few raw materials or to go all the way back to Rina’s hotel to do-up something more professional. She didn’t want to take another day to go back to the hotel, and the Ristroan girl she’d just taken off didn’t fit with what she had in mind.
The materials to make false skin were common enough once you knew what they were, if you weren’t too picky about your apparent health, so that wasn’t a problem. Good pigment was harder, but the light was poor in the best parts of Fom and downright dark in the Lip. The clothes—well, there were clothes everywhere, so th
