Who and Why?

*A note to say that it was definitely the anti-histamine. 24 hours after the “time of effect” I could write again for the first time in months. Of course, the plot immediately complicated. Oh, what tangled web we weave when our characters don’t ask permission to go off the reservation. Eh. SAH*

My mom, who is considerably paler than I am, who has green-hazel eyes and who, in her pre-coloring days, had hair of a pale walnut brown, came to dressing and buying me make up by a simple process: she...