When he went to the Academy shopping center, Lancet got Solaris a long cream coat, a fitted dark dress and high leather boots from one of the boutiques.
It cost 11,400 Profits. But he was a rich student now so spending Profits meant nothing to him.
The outfit was usual by present standards, but Solaris wore it like someone had been wrapped in another person's customs. Her shoulders remained too straight beneath the coat, and her red hair flowed down behind it like a crimson banner.
Her breasts pushed out of the cream coat, and her legs were tall and emphasized inside those high leather boots.
She gathered more attention in those clothes than she did when she was covered in fire. Students watched them cross the central grounds.
Some stopped speaking when Solaris passed. Others whispered behind raised books and crystal screens, comparing her face to old paintings they had seen in the museum.
