"Beware the Convent of the Veiled Rose. They say the girls are chosen not for their power, but for their capacity to hold sorrow. They are the jewels of Ezili; they dress in the finest silks and bathe in starlight, but look closely at their cheeks. The 'beauty marks' they wear are not ink or paint, they are the permanent stains of astral tears that have burned through the skin. They are beautiful, yes, but they are a shipwreck of the soul. Do not look into the water when they sing."
