ashen-gold

Updated: June 2, 2025

I half-rose youths and maidens these of the fair-haired; and youths and maids more beautiful than any of those I had yet seen for upon their faces was little of that disturbing mockery to which I have been forced so often, because of the deep impression it made upon me, to refer. The ashen-gold of the maiden priestesses' hair was wound about their brows in shining coronals.

Abraham Merritt - The Moon Pool