[IC] New Crobuzon & the World Beyond

[Selina Parcellus]

Selina begins shaking her head, looking at the hand with blood on it and flexing it a few times.  That hand, along with the wrist and the entire arm up to her antecubitis (elbow cavity) was covered in green snake scales.  It was her most closely-guarded secret.  Amber eyes were a mutation, an oddity, but an intriguing one to most Humans, to the point that most people felt either attraction or interest in them.  Sibilant phonemes could be hidden or passed off as training to overcome a speech impediment.  But no Human had skin like a snake's.  With eyes widening suddenly in dread, she remembers what happened last time.  When she'd retired to her tent alone, removed her plate armor and found scales and soft flesh mottling together on her other arm!  It had been like a nightmare, and now she was living it!

"I...I cannot do this.  I have to get off this plane."