TOS Ch2 excerpt2

She was predictably dressed in baggy jeans and a long sleeved hoodie shirt, but the pigtails were gone. Her hair was longer now, and styled in twin braids.  She was still rather boyish with the backwards faded red cap, but her features were more defined than the summer before, her neck long and slender under the wisps of stray hairs that had escaped her loosely knotted braids.  And her iridescent blue eyes imparted solemn reticence as she stood apart from the crowds, with sparks of orange flames from the bonfire flickering in her pupils.