CH966

“You ready?” Thera asked, her dress on now that the day of the wedding had come, needing only to drop Mora off before the two of them got going, leaving Ben to admire her while he buttoned up his shirt.

“Almost, but don’t worry, we’ll still be there early. There’s one more thing I want to do first.”

“Better not be working when you’re cleaned up so nicely.”

“Nah, nothing like that,” he told her as he pulled a chair over to a mirror. “Take a seat, it’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to do your hair.”

“What, looking to pretty me up a bit more?” she teased.

“You always look beautiful, this is as much for my own enjoyment as anything else. It’s just an excuse to see my lovely girlfriend with a bit of a different style.”

“Well, if you’re going to flatter me like that then how can I refuse?”

She sat down and smiled, watching in the mirror with interest at what he would do while he ran his fingers through her hair, seeing how long it had gotten. Other than some light trimming, she hadn’t had a real cut since the last time he’d done it for her to make a more powerful staff, the few years it had been growing leaving it comfortably down her back.

“Just going to play with it?”

“Just thinking about how long it might get if you leave it for a century,” he laughed. “Maybe something you should consider in the future. You could roll it up into the biggest, most unwieldy bun when you need it out of the way.”

“Pfff, if I was going to let it grow for that long, I’d just get you to make me something with a spatial effect I could store most of it in. I’m sure you could throw together something that would look nice while doing it.”

“True. Could be fun too. I’ll make you one later if you want, I’ve got more than enough voidstone.”

“What a shocking waste of one of the rarest materials on the planet.”

“Hey, last time Jake was here I used him to make a ton of it. If I ever run out I’ll just grab him to make more.”

“And I’m sure he would just love hearing that,” she laughed. “If you do, figure out a way to make it up to him.”

“Hmm, maybe I could slip everything I know about swordsmanship into his head so he could finally take advantage of that laser sword I made him a while ago. He’d probably enjoy that, so long as he was ever given the chance to use it,” he told her as he got started, braiding her hair into something akin to a half-up crown but leaving it looser at the back as his fingers nimbly moved through it to get the result he wanted, leaving him smiling at the end while she looked at it. “So, what do you think?”

“I think you could have had a decent job as a hairstylist if you’d wanted one,” she told him, plenty pleased with the job. “Maybe I should get you to do my hair more often, at least on days when I’m not hunting or in a hospital.”

“Ha, that doesn’t exactly leave many days.”

“All the more reason to get you to do it then, let me enjoy feeling pretty on my days off.”

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