`` she had straggling hair , very white , and eyes which had turned a perfect brighter blue with age , rather than pale , and a withered long face and a great triumphant expression , and she wore all scarlet , defiant scarlet , silks all over her , as if she were some egyptian whore or something , and she carried a crooked staff , with a snake on the end of it , not so unlike the staffs of the prophets , and she said to me : `` 'azriel , you come to me .