"Alice pushes back her sunglasses, using them as a band to hold her brown-gray hair."
"Chicks are either entirely brown-gray, or white ventrally."
"So she took the number 1, one of the new bendy buses that were such a mistake, seeing as traffic in the inner city moved slower than seven kilometers an hour and it was always quicker to walk, but she got a seat at the back by the window, streaked with brown-gray rain, as the bus rattled like a medieval donkey cart off toward the newspaper factory."