Her hair comes in green.

Her hair comes in green. She doesn't mean for it to - her collar is secure, and at the age it starts she can't really possibly. That happens sometimes. They punish her for it, of course, once everyone is old enough to notice it as maybe meaning something, once she's old enough to understand. Lest she get ideas, lest someone who didn't just not mean it get ideas, lest the others see it and get ideas. 

It doesn't help, of course.

She learned to cry quietly early.

It keeps coming in green, and they schedule reinforcements - not very often, but there. Lest someone. (She could change it, of course. A caretaker could change it, before she's old enough to learn. But that would be magic for a mage's personal use (and need regular renewal, too), and that won't be allowed. And it would still be green, wouldn't it.

It comes in green. There is reinforcement. If anyone gets ideas they keep such to themselves.

Her hair comes in green. She doesn't mean for it to - her collar is secure, and at the age it starts she can't really possibly. That happens sometimes. They punish her for it, of course, once everyone is old enough to notice it as maybe meaning something, once she's old enough to understand. Lest she get ideas, lest someone who didn't just not mean it get ideas, lest the others see it and get ideas. 

It doesn't help, of course.

She learned to cry quietly early.

It keeps coming in green, and they schedule reinforcements - not very often, but there. Lest someone. (She could change it, of course. A caretaker could change it, before she's old enough to learn. But that would be magic for a mage's personal use (and need regular renewal, too), and that won't be allowed. And it would still be green, wouldn't it.

It comes in green. There is reinforcement. If anyone gets ideas they keep such to themselves.

Her hair comes in green. She doesn't mean for it to - her collar is secure, and at the age it starts she can't really possibly. That happens sometimes. They punish her for it, of course, once everyone is old enough to notice it as maybe meaning something, once she's old enough to understand. Lest she get ideas, lest someone who didn't just not mean it get ideas, lest the others see it and get ideas. 

It doesn't help, of course.

She learned to cry quietly early.

It keeps coming in green, and they schedule reinforcements - not very often, but there. Lest someone. (She could change it, of course. A caretaker could change it, before she's old enough to learn. But that would be magic for a mage's personal use (and need regular renewal, too), and that won't be allowed. And it would still be green, wouldn't it.

It comes in green. There is reinforcement. If anyone gets ideas they keep such to themselves.

Her hair comes in green. She doesn't mean for it to - her collar is secure, and at the age it starts she can't really possibly. That happens sometimes. They punish her for it, of course, once everyone is old enough to notice it as maybe meaning something, once she's old enough to understand. Lest she get ideas, lest someone who didn't just not mean it get ideas, lest the others see it and get ideas. 

It doesn't help, of course.

She learned to cry quietly early.

It keeps coming in green, and they schedule reinforcements - not very often, but there. Lest someone. (She could change it, of course. A caretaker could change it, before she's old enough to learn. But that would be magic for a mage's personal use (and need regular renewal, too), and that won't be allowed. And it would still be green, wouldn't it.)

It comes in green. There is reinforcement. If anyone gets ideas they keep such to themselves.