you found yourself swiftly ushered through in the green room

Raising your eyes from the salty terrain of his abdomen, you noted the ebony tendrils of his short dreads that fell haphazardly, a stark contrast against the smooth, tawny hue of his forehead—they shielded his brow like a canopy of midnight foliage against a dusky sky. Yet, behind this sylvan curtain of hair, his eyes—a pair of smoldering embers—rested on you with an inscrutable gaze.

"You're a very attractive girl.."