What It Does
The face, taken out of the light — the dark does not hide the body, the dark takes the face, and the face is the whole argument. It is the dark school's answer to the air school's still room: the room is still, and the face is the one who is not in it.
The Cost
Circle 2 · Dark · Exchange: breath — casting time one round. On the ladder in The Veil, the breath rung is the price.
The Failure
The veil holds the shape a beat too long, and the dark keeps the tension — the face is the one who is not seen, and the one who is not seen is the one who was already the one the camp knows.
In Stories
The journeyman's dark spell; the one the camp casts when the face is the argument and the dark is the one who has to hold.
The door's scale anchor is Shadowveil — the dragon casts it without thinking, which is how a reader learns the shape of the thing.