The next day, Lory returned to the Bellevue Hotel—though no one looking at her would have known it. Her appearance had shifted entirely. She wore her hair in a sharp blonde bob, and her makeup, though trendy and minimal in style, had been applied with precision.
She wasn't worried about concealing her natural features; the Shapeshifter spell had already altered the finer lines of her face, while the Versipel potion cloaked the rest beneath a subtle haze. To the eye, she was someone else entirely.
A pair of glasses softened her features into formality, and the pencil-skirt ensemble completed the look of a professional woman on assignment. Behind her followed three Noxcra agents, each dressed for their cover roles, a cameraman, a photographer, and a technician lugging cases.
