At the same time the stranger notices her hair glowing, Varian notices the blue spreading from a small streak in his hair to across his bangs and, he knows, beyond that too. He yelps as if he was just zapped, and leaps away.

"Wh... What just-- How-- Why did that happen?!"

But he barely has time to get the words out when a flashlight beam shines down the alleyway. At the other end of the light are two large, intimidating men, sneering as they approach.