"Most people tell themselves that, but it's great for me. It really sets off my hair and my eyes." And because it made people think she wasn't as strong or as smart as she was.

Green will go with his eyes! So would blue, actually, but she didn't want to push.

Interesting was one word for it. Glorified child minder would be better. It was hard to save the world when everyone around you was having drama of some kind or another. "Really? Some people have told me that, but I thought they were having me on. And I can do all kinds of magic, though I mostly stick with the elementals: fire, ice, stone." Rains of fire, rains of ice, rains of stones, it all worked out.