Galasma wonders...

My hair...I know its significance...but sometimes I have to wonder, how different would my life have been without it?

I still think my parents would have made me a robot against my will. Maybe I'd have had my father's black hair. But would I have been as powerful? Without the rainbow hair, would I have been unable to use all the magic at the level I can? Maybe I wouldn't have been able to kill my parents...

Without the power I would have had, would have I have been such a successful mercenary? Would I have been able to protect all those people?

This rainbow hair was definitely a curse in my early life, but I would replace it for nothing now. Without it, I'd have never made the link that the rainbow haired woman in tales was my grandmother, Vrana, nor would I have ever met her, or Lisarion, or even have been to Draiocht. If I just had plain old black hair, that would never have happened.

And who knows...maybe Sera would have never even approached me if I had black hair...I could never have a life without her...

It's funny, really. One slight quirk in genetics has the ability to completely alter how my life would have gone. I suppose my father would have hated me less but it wouldn't have changed much.

...It's intriguing me...my power is so closely linked to my hair, each colour shines corresponding to the magic used...I don't see a way I could be the way I am without it, not even robotics would give me the power. Vali proved that, the amount of machinery within her, poor girl isn't even novus anymore...and she can only use and combine two magic types.

It's despicable...someone so young as she taken and modified in a way some people see fit for their own schemes, and throwing them away when it doesn't work! Vali deserved better than that, and I will make sure she does get better. Sera and I both will.

But I still can't help but think...with all that would have been changed...would I have ever freed Vali? I couldn't imagine...she'd still be stuck in that stasis chamber...all the joys she'd miss out on...

And what about me? The amount of things I'd have missed had I not had this rainbow hair...it's such a unique part of me, yet it might be the most important, and I've had it since birth. It's such a big part of me. It's such a big part of my life. It might be the entire reason I found love. I really can't-

"Galasma! You've been out there a while, is everything okay?"
"Uh, yeah! The view's nice so I was spending some time thinking."

Serafina walked out, standing beside Galasma and leaning onto her gently, Galasma's hand instinctively reaching to her head to pat it and stroke her bunny ears, both staring out into the now night sky.

Sera: What were you thinking about?
Galasma: (*Smiles*) ...How lucky I am that things turned out this way.