Light
Usually, the only thing Varlam had eye for when it came to people was hair colour. He didn’t want to pay too much attention to brown hair, for he thought that brown hair could only be good when people knew they weren’t going to turn to darkness. Varlam wasn’t sure about it himself, and so he felt like his own brown locks were more of a curse than anything else. Nothing about it looked soft, or pleasant, but he couldn’t dwell on it. That way, he would never have eye for anything positive or yellow anymore.
From time to time, it happened that he saw something so light that it almost wasn’t yellow anymore. At times like those, he had little eye for anything else anymore in general. This time he had found it in someone’s hair. He was positive it belonged to someone who was male, but he wasn’t sure about it. He could only pay attention to the hair.
“I want to have that,” he said, only now looking at the boy it still belonged to. He pointed to his hair, sighing softly. “Can I cut it?”












