HavenFable

Image Description: art of Venli. It shows her standing against a dark cloudy background, staring off at a distant light. She has white skin with detailed spirals of red across it. Her calves and shoulders have spikes of red-black carapace. She also has some smaller pieces of carapace on the side of her head and along her cheeks. She is wearing sandals that go part way up her lower legs, and a simple dark grey dress with no sleeves and large slits on either side, so you can see most of her legs. She stands with one hand on her waist, the other hand holding up the hem of her dress. Her body faces the viewer, while her face is turned away, so you can see the side of it. Her hair is dark and falls to her shoulders. The one eye you can see is red. end image description.

she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.