" It was white. White and gold. It was livery.
I told myself it meant nothing. It was just a color.
But I was wrong. That color meant everything.
It was a command to the Queen’s ladies that they shouldn’t greet me or acknowledge that I’d entered a room.
It was an indelible line drawn between me and the other Grisha.
It was a signal to the King that he could follow me into my chambers and press me up against the wall, that I was available for his use.
That there was no point to crying out. "

― Leigh Bardugo , The Tailor (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1.5)