Haru returns. "I'm doing fine on the introversion front, especially since I can leave you two alone with each other some of the time, but thank you for thinking of me," he says, handing the pliers over and tapping his ear.

“Esper senses are gonna be great!”

AUGH RIGHT ESPER EARS

"Okay cool cool glad that's settled! And, uh, sorry for talking about you behind your back like that."

"No harm done."

Okay! No harm done. 

Pliers in hand, she removes the top of the red marker carefully, extracting the ink cartridge. "Time to put this in your hair?"

Giggle. “No, that’s not quite how it works.” She gets a small bowl, puts a little bit of water in it, and starts working to drain the ink out of the cartridge.

"....Ohhhhhh! Ink soup...."

She watches with interest. 

And then once all the ink is out she wants to comb the slightly diluted red ink into the lower halves of four of the seven sections! Alternating which ones do and don’t get colored, obviously.

Ink soup, apply to hair! She'll follow Lucy's instructions carefully. Comb comb comb.

"Do you do this often?"

“Not often. I like my hair the way it is.”

She sighs happily as she combs the red in. "You do have incredible hair."

“Thanks! People sometimes assume I bleach it, if they don’t notice my eyelashes or assume I’m very stupid.”

She giggles. "With help and proper technique (and barrier cream, obviously), it's totally safe to get eyebrows bleached - the one time I got my hair bleached at a salon, I did it. They had me lie all the way back while it was being applied, and then they were very careful rinsing it off. But getting hair like that with bleach would be... you would need like a bucket of olaplex or you'd have more frizz than hair, at the end."