"Better get yourself ready to be beached...! Like a giant endangered squid who hasn't seen the light of day for thousands of years."

Taking a comb, she parts his hair and starts on the last few sections to begin. Tok, tok goes the flat iron. Baby blues hardly pay attention to whatever channel he decides, attention too focused on the hair before her.

"That's what those are? Huh. Since I'm not from here, I wouldn't know."