Powder was flying everywhere, leaving the air a smoke white, filling everyone’s lungs with light perfume, Vaslav gagging slightly as he dips the puff back into the overflowing glass jar, smashing the white substance on his neck like mad, leaving a strange, thick white residue. He sighs, preening in the mirror, adjusting the green-shaded lamp. Their vanity is long, the kind dancers have, but the lights are busted, leaving everyone ghostly and sick in the stolen reeding lamp’s sickly emerald gaze. He turns slightly, turning his head so the abomination that now is his neck is exposed, tendons stretching as he swallows and sighs listlessly, tossing the puff back in the jar.
“Can you still see it, darling?” He turns suddenly towards her, the light catching his peeling, pale lips, his eyes wide, sleepless, clogged with strange light and iris and pupil a too-pale color. “I can’t seem to cover it, the uh, bruise,” Vaslav mumbles, touching his neck with his fingers and feeling the soft powder under his skin, natural rose burning at his cheeks suddenly, looking at Rebecca half guilty, turning his body away once more. “No one ever does that sort of thing to you.” He mumbles, regretfully, shaking his head.