"Raff, what've you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue."
"I've been trying a new remedy for headache," he said, "to be massaged into the scalp. Yesterday I thought I felt a headache coming on, so I tried it. Apparently it turns fair hair blue."
She smiled. "Did it cure the headache?"
"Well, if I had a headache, then it did, but I'm not convinced I had one to begin with. Do you have a headache?" he asked, hopefully. "Your hair's so dark; it wouldn't turn nearly as blue."
"I don't. I never do. What does the king think of your hair?"
Raffin smirked. "He's not speaking to me. He says it's appalling behavior for the son of the king. Until my hair is normal again I'm not his son."