Just as Koda isn't always a rough and tumble barbarian, but can dress in finery and do the courtly manners act when he needs to...so can his friend Kendra.

Here, she's got her hair formally braided and is wearing an elegant dress and jewerly more suited to her southern-regions ancestral trading house than the northern climes. Perhaps there's visiting dignitaries.

The portrait-like neutral expression? That would be part of the act, the formality. The moment she's alone with her friend Koda, she'd be laughing and lively again, giggling about the shallow courtly intrigues they'd both seen.

I LOVE the lighting in this. A beautiful portrait of an elegant lady done by  incense-sw