Gately shot by the Nucks
She leans down and in, so Gately can see up at what looks like a regular human female chin and makeupless lower lip under the veil’s billowing hem. ‘Whom should we call?’ she asks him.
Context
Gately flat on his back in the street with a .44 round in his shoulder, Joelle straddling his arm and pressing her folded robe into the wound. From directly underneath — the one sightline U.H.I.D. linen doesn't govern — he gets the book's rare partial eyewitness report: "a regular human female chin," nothing monstrous. A page later the veil reasserts itself: "Gately focuses at where the Joelle girl's eyes would be."