Alanna tenses. How can she not?

Her hair is short, her chest is bound, her stride is masculine, and her muscles are well-developed: these things will not change. What might appear more evident to Quentin are softer lines and other physiological clues that might make the people who spend day in and out with Alanna, who know she's nearing seventeen years, start to wonder.

The Goddess likes to muddle their perceptions a bit.