The steeping finished and the face-down brunette, laying in a very soft charcoal sleeping dress, sighed into the pillow and chose to acknowledge that by dry-cleaning the bed. She would never move if she didn't reset everything and besides - she figured it would be easier on her heart if that quality at least began fresher together when they later slept. Rolling off the side, she watched as a warm and deep amber liquid was strained into one of only two deep violet-blue cups.
A color that she knew would shift into an almost gray-yellow or even clear in the right light angles, as iolite - gem quality cordierite - simply had that anisotropic property to it. A variation in wavelength absorption known as pleochroism that, in some more common stones, could be useful for finding the direction of the sun when lost on an overcast day.
