She frowned down at the shard, its light so very much like her natural skin color. "Sometimes, I wonder if I should wear gloves," she said. "So it's not immediately the first thing that people see about me."

Which wasn't to say that everyone she met was unkind.

It was only...well...some of them made judgments. And some of those judgments weren't very nice.

"It doesn't hurt any more," she added, cheerfully enough.