OOC Prompt: Cliches: Don't judge a book by its cover
The belled costume of the leper had been a mask for more than a decade, and it was with great reluctance Thorn had dropped it. Gradually he became aware that no one in the Nexus noticed the role he had molded his habits into. They saw past his skin, and that terrified him. The people of the Nexus did not judge a book its cover, but he wished they would.