"I didn't really think about it. It was pretty."

"I will look into ordering dye in that color."

"What if somebody sees me?"

- sigh. "We could dye it my color in the meantime?"

"I guess. I dunno if it will look nice on me."

"I like your color but mine would be less weird than a distinctly alien brown."

"Yeah. I can do yours."

He goes upstairs and gets his hair dye.

"I don't know how to dye hair."

"I do. I used to do it myself all the time."

"Used to?"

"Eventually I got very busy and it made more sense to have a hairdresser do it while I read things."

"Oh. Do they come here? So you have the dye around?"

"Yes, she stops by in the evenings about once a week."

Nod. "Well, I guess you better dye mine before somebody sees."

So he washes her hair with special shampoo and dries it and dyes it very thoroughly.

She reads while he does it.

"You let it sit for an hour and then rinse it out with cold water, okay?"

"Okay."

Pat pat.

She peers at herself in the mirror. "I liked the other color better."

"We'll go ahead and order it for you."

"Can it be got just the same?"

"We can experiment with a couple colors. I bet they sell something that'll come through right."

"Okay."