Cassiopeia wore an exquisite dress of white and golden fabric, and her blonde hair was elaborately piled upon her head in elegant braids. Her face was painted with colors on her lips and above her eyes, a practice Perseus had heard of but had never seen before, as the women of Seriphos were not ones to adorn themselves so.
King Cepheus was clad in a wrapped skirt of linen placed low on his hips, and one strong thigh had emerged from between the folds. His hair was longer than any man Perseus had ever seen, cascading halfway down his back, and composed of hundreds of braided strands, making him look lion-like and regal. He was bare-chested, and Perseus drank in the sight of his firm, taut muscles before immediately dropping into a bow, as it seemed the right thing to do. Bellerophon, howev
