A Simple Darkness (The Young Ancients: Tiera) - Plot & Excerpts
She hadn't had a lot of haircuts in her life and kind of feared what the man might do to her. Especially once she realized what it would take to keep her hair from being pulled by her shield at all. She grabbed her head and let her eyes squint a bit. "I won't do it. That Kolbrin fellow wants me to be bald like him!" Karen smiled at her but didn't laugh, ruffling her own short hair, which was about an inch long all over. "Modern fighter's cut. It just has to be short enough so that the field will form around it no matter what. Really you can have a couple of inches, but if people are going to be coming for you, it would pay to not give them that handle on you. Besides that... you could do with a little something or other to dampen the looks. We'll tell everyone it was done as a penance for your mis-steps earlier and they'll probably be a lot more likely to cut you some slack. Most good looking girls are pretty vain and shallow." There was a tone to her voice, under the relaxed and matter of fact sweetness that irritated Tiera more than a bit, earning the larger woman a glare for a bit.
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