"The Platinum Raven" teaser - her devastating, desert-eyed perfection
Teaser for the video-book of Rohan Quine's novella "The Platinum Raven" - teaser 6(v) "her devastating, desert-eyed perfection". // And on her right will be a young Armenian man of maybe twenty-one, of a dark and delicate beauty in keeping with the silver scorpion pendant hanging at his neck, and whose glass she clinks with her own. // Without warning the Platinum Raven then turns her head further round, in slow-motion, to face this direction, as if she can see though the fourth wall of the bar-room and across the desert, to where the city of Dubai spreads out impaled by the Burj Khalifa's spike. // The Platinum Raven's eyes spend a few moments easing with infinitesimal precision up and down this building's 30 Tiers - then they pinpoint the Chocolate Raven's little i-shaped dot where it leans at the rail of Level 152, holding up a glass of red that's lit from within by the dusk-light passing through it here on the roof of Tier 14. // The platinum-lashed eyes stop their hunt. They focus more; and now they stare straight across, cutting clear and cool through the miles of desert in between, directly to their chocolate-lashed double's own eyes. // On the wet smooth curves of the Platinum Raven's eyes sits an identical pair of images of the Chocolate Raven herself, ever so tiny and ever so perfect: crouching in the glare of a parked car's headlights, just beyond the power-station complex on the desert coast, over-exposed in a light that burns her face to white, moaning in pleasure there impaled on a man in shadow, crouching with her luscious straight chocolate-coloured hair across her face, until she raises her head and the hair slides away... And now her own devastating, desert-eyed perfection meets the Chocolate Raven's gaze full on, electrifying - animal, expressionless, an icon of ecstasy and chocolate and sweat in wailing silence in the headlights, as dust floats around her through the siren-song behind the air.