3 Green Fish

I added 3 pages today, and wrote most of chapter 9. It’s kind of short, but it’s a single scene and I think it fit together well. I feel like my characters are starting to click in terms of their relationships and how they interact, which is good on the one hand, because it makes the writing easier, and bad on another, because that dynamic is going to change soon. Still, if nothing else it means that when I go back to revise I’ll have a better grasp of things. Adrianna, especially, is revealing a little of what makes her tick, to me, and that helps a lot.

Today Adrianna gets a haircut and makeover, a la Queer Eye for the Sorcerer … uh, Gal.

“Thy locks are far too long,” Bandolor commented from a stool in the corner of the kitchen. “Though the bachelors in Ynedering let their locks rustle ’gainst their shoulders, a boy in Itenin with such hair as thine would scandalize many. Mayhaps a maiden would as well.”
“I be scandalized myself,” Iggsle said with a sly grin, and vanished once more behind Adrianna.
The scissors bit down again. Adrianna winced. “Don’t you have any better scissors? How do you cut each other’s hair?”
“Elias Barber lives in town,” Iggsle said. “His hands be steady. . . .”
“But his tongue shakes at any provocation,” Bandolor cut in. “His slightest suspicion be common knowledge in Itenin. ’Twould have been too risky to have thee meet him ere thy locks be shorn.”

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