"Hey."

	"Hmmm?"

	"There's something I've been meaning to ask you."

	"Wha?"

	"About your eyes ..."

	"Why are they like this, you mean?"

	"Yes ..."

	"Well ... when I was fourteen years old, I was just starting to
get involved with the cycle crowd ... I was still living in the orphanage,
but I didn't leave til I was seventeen ..."

	"When ..."

	"Yeah.  Anyway, as part of one of those "youthful rebellion"
things that seem pretty cool at the time, I got my eyes dyed."

	"NANI?"

	"It's pretty simple ... they put you under, then they squirt some
artificial pigment into the iris.  If I'd been a little smarter, I'd've
worried that I was gonna get organ-robbed when I was out, but ..."

	"And it's permanent?"

	"Lasted all this time."

	"Huh."

	"What?"

	"Shouldn't that have given you a clue that you weren't a clone?"

	Silence.

	"Well?"

	"Shut up, Raye."

Author's Notes

	This was inspired by a minor discussion on a.f.bgcrisis about the
reason Priss has her distinctive eye coloration.  I don't doubt for a
minute that, considering all the technology of Mega-Tokyo, artificial
pigmentation would exist.  (If it exists now, I plead ignorance.)

Chris Davies, Advocate for Darkness, Part-Time Champion of Light.
"I am not a very nice person anymore." - Rand al'Thor, "Crown of Swords"