While most appeared absorbed in their work, one of the women, polishing a collection of tall, delicate vases in a measured, methodical manner, coolly watched Jennsen out of the corner of her eye.
Several ebony tables were set around the room decorated with delicate vases and large flat bowls filled with sweet almond biscuits.
The walls held fine tapestries; delicate vases stood on pedestals in the corners.
Even the bloodred tulips in the delicate vase looked wilted, sagging.
They range from large sections of marble statuary and hieroglyphics to delicate vases and bronze figurines.
A delicate vase was shattered to atoms as it was crushed beneath the falling table.
As she admired a delicate vase that looked like it was made of papier-mache, a look of happiness passed over her face.
On Wednesday morning alone, diggers unearthed two large and intact urns, a delicate vase, the leg to a statue of what might have been a bull or a calf and countless small engraved artifacts.
Such spasms of pain had plagued her for years, ever since the day she woke up in Rush's military infirmary, her head bandaged like a delicate vase about to be shipped via the postal system.
Torres irritably picked up a delicate blue vase, giving it a cursory glance before setting it back down.