"Wow. I'm impressed, that's a solid way of handling that!" She hums for a moment again. "I'll need to think about mine somewhat, because I feel like there's an additional enra beyond Voracian that I haven't really had the... slack, I guess, to figure out before. Maybe something about helping people?"

She shrugs.

"Maybe, yes. The searching process for offering rescue seeks people with unfulfilled or weakly fulfilled compatible enras — I'm not sure how it works exactly, you'd have to ask a Very Serious Person and they generally have better things to do with their time."

"That makes sense," Sable agrees with a smile. "So, right, where Aria and I left off is discussing my ink theme and whether or not it's about a writing enra, which I think we're concluding it isn't. It's really part of the eldritch thing for me, the particular kind of weird tentacle creature I'm supposed to be is basically a shapeshifting inkblot that can be lots of things."

"Hmmm, I don't have any ideas, Aria...?"

"Not to worry. I think the appropriate thing is an ink-bottle charm of some form. Not in the necklace area, but perhaps on the wrist or in a coat pocket? I have a nice little potion-bottle here -" She turns out a tall slim black bottle with a little stopper from among the odds and ends. "- which might suit if visibly carried in a pocket or on a bandolier." 

"Ooh. That could go in the bandolier, and it's nicely fidgetable."

"Then I think we just need a pair of boots and perhaps a hair accessory to complete the look. Let me see, what looks about your size..." 

Aria pull a pair of heavy black boots with chunky silver snaps out of the stacks; they're quite tall, rising almost to the knee. "Do these suit?" 

"Oooooooooooh."

"That sounds promising. Alright, hair accessory — scrunchies are in if you're going for something casual, but if you want to put in more effort a more complex hairclip might add a nice little touch of color. The butterfly style is classic, but one could also do something with a hairband or a brooch..."

She reaches over and plucks a small plastic hairclip in the shape of a butterfly from the vanity. The violet's a decent match for the skirt. 

"How do you feel about this piece to start? Do you want something more elegant and formal, something more practical, something more cutesy...?"

"That butterfly is fine for now, I think."

"Wonderful! Then it's time I loaded you up with all the pieces and sent you into the change room. It's just in the back left, past the stack of boots." 

Aira bundles up the stack of pieces that Sable has approved so far, and hands them over with both arms. "Here you go, let me know if anything doesn't fit. I'm generally fairly good at estimating sizes but even I can't always get it perfect."

"Hm." She glances over at the breast forms for a moment, then shakes her head. "Yeah, let's start with these."

Up she gets to change. She gets everything on well enough, then steps out. "The skirt was a little snug getting up past my hips, surprisingly, but everything fits."

She wiggles and looks around for a mirror.

"Take a look!" Aria points to the quite large mirror in the vanity over the stack ot makeup.

She checks herself out, then gasps a bit. "Oh, this is great. This is much more me. Tempted to ask about the bleach and dye, but probably we can't switch colors as fast as we switch fronters."

"I can provide you with water-soluble dye, or with lumistrands — I don't know if you have them on your world, they're flexible plastic hair extensions with tiny LEDs built into them so that they can illuminate in a variety of colors depending on one's mood. They're slightly thicker than regular hair, so they lend themselves to more of a cyberized look, but more fae looks can be done with smaller proportions of them mixed into regular extensions as well. Would you be interested in those?" 

"Oh lumistrands sound lovely. Our old world didn't have anything like that, at least not that we knew of. Hm. Water-soluble dye might be easier for Neo's half-pink and half-brown with a white streak, and Ruby's red tips in black hair. Hm hm hm."

"Don't feel you have to make a decision immediately; you can always come back later!"

"I... honestly we should probably take both. The lumistrands make Maya's look easier and can spice up my and Hailey's, and the dye handles Neo's and Ruby's. Do y'all have anything for eye color?"

"There are of course cosmetic contacts, but they can be a bit of a trouble to put in and take out."

She hums. "The lumistrands can keep up with our switching without needing midday rinses or contact swaps. Probably those. Can lumistrands light up just the tip, or only the whole strand?"

"The kind we have available here light the whole strand or nothing, but there are more expensive varieties that are fully programmable which you might be able to purchase with your stipend."

"Long-term thing, then. Could you help me put in some lumistrands?"

"Of course. Just take a seat in the salon chair and I'll work my magic."

She sits back down with a smile. "I'm thinking something like streaks maybe? I don't think we mind the cyberized look if it turns out like that."

"Your wish is my command." 

Aira breaks out a set of lumistrands from a plasticized paper container, and starts settling them into Sable's hair, adding some more mundane hair extensions matched to her hair color to compensate for the additional length. "How wide would you like the streaks to be? Pinky width? Thumb width? Smaller than a single pinky?"