(Scars do not appear to be cause of death –shock ... - Bad Request

Yves smiled. "A fine tale, Nordom. And now I've one for you and your
companion... 'Flowers and Sensates.'
"There was a man who read much of flowers - essays, treatises, biological
texts, poetry - and as such considered himself well-learned in the way of
flowers. One day, he came across a half-blind gardener who tended the
Sensate gardens. Who was blind in the way of flowers?"
Musing over such questions wasn't what I was here for. "Yves, I was hoping
you might have stories about Ravel Puzzlewell."
"The tale of Ravel Puzzlewell, frightener of children, begins and ends with a
question: 'What can change the nature of a man?'
"Many were the times she posed this riddle to those who approached her,
those who sought to glean from her the strange magics that she alone
seemed to possess. All attempted to answer her query, but to no avail... and
they found the price of their wrong answer to be some horrible fate, always
more terrible than the last victim's. To recount their various torments would
be to speak of things that nightmares are woven from.
"The tale strikes me in this way: Ravel herself knew not the answer to this
question, but she lusted for such an answer. Only the why of the matter
remained in question. Why did the nature of a man matter to one of the
Gray Sisters, especially of one of such power as Ravel?
"It is said that she put the question to the Lady of Pain; not directly, but
shouted it to Sigil itself, daring for the Lady to answer. When no reply was
forthcoming, she wove terrible magics that threatened to open the Cage
and let the fury of the Planes roll in like a wave.
"She received no answer other than banishment. To this day, no one knows
the answer to Ravel's question... and now there is no one to petition, for
Ravel herself is gone, lost to the Planes."
"Hmm... I'd best ask a few others..."
"Wait... there is more. Though my tale ends with Ravel's demise, there are
some that claim the hag still lives. There is a silent prostitute here who once
talked of such things, but she speaks no longer. If she would speak to you,
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