"Oh yeah?" Judas smiled encouragingly at the young woman. "I used to do a little costume stuff too. Still make my own, for my other skin's performances, but I stopped doing much of it...stopped doing a lot of my knife-throwing stuff, too, since there's other people who are better looking. Still"--his voice was proud--"no one else is a contortionist while having a snake attached to them. So I've still got my niche."
A laugh. "Plus, no one else looks quite like my femme skin does. Lots of very pretty ladies here, you know? But almost all of them are very, very pale. For one reason or another. 'Phi's the only one that's more dusky, really...maybe a couple others. Definitely the only belly-dancing, snake-eaten contortion act in town, though."
He paused, as they reached the food tent, letting her go before him. "Do you like that? Painting and doing makeup and stuff. Is that something you enjoy?"