Contact Lenses (Patreon)

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

These small glass lenses fit comfortably over your eyes, becoming invisible while worn. While you're wearing them, you can use a bonus action to alter the appearance of your eyes. The change remains until you use another bonus action to change them again or remove the lenses. When you make a Wisdom (Perception) check that relies on sight while wearing the lenses, your bonus to the roll can't be negative.

In addition, while maintaining eye contact with a creature within 120 feet of you, both you and that creature can speak telepathically with each other. To understand each other, you each must speak mentally in a language you share.

For reasons neither could explain, it was custom for the king and queen to sit at either head of the great table. The baron couldn't believe his luck in being seated beside the latter, free to ply her with his honeyed words away from her husband's ears; after all, he knew he was truly irresistible.

In his self-absorption, he was oblivious to the queen's game of ever-changing eyes, to the glances between the monarchs, and to the fact they had finally settled on "sugar-bloated sewer-rat" as his most apt title.