A digital art portrait of a woman with long wavy blonde hair, wearing glasses, earrings, a blazer, and a floral pin.

She wore her hair slightly longer than before, and instead of being dyed to sunshine-yellow, it had become a collection of different hues of dirty blonde and light brown, a slight copper sheen giving everything a fiery glow, and with sophisticated grays here and there. Even with such a supernova of color and experience, it was impossibly lustrous and bouncy. I could see a pair of smart, trendy glasses, small pendant earrings, light fuschia lipstick, and subtle touches of makeup. She wore an outfit that most would probably see as flexibly professional but that was casually breathtaking to me, along with a large, artful pin on the lapel of her blazer. I wasn't sure of what, but it reminded me of an orchid in that momentary glance See more