There was a ripple, and the puddle rose and formed Aliena again.

But she was different. She was no longer seven foot tall, with a thick black plait and pale blue eyes and with a long black cloak and sallow skinned.

Instead, she was five foot three. Her black hair was now a soft blonde pixie cut and her sallow skin was now a pale cream. Instead of blue, her eyes were stormy grey. Her cloak was gone and in its place was a grey dress just above her knee topped off with a silver cloak draped over her back and reaching the back of her knees and a pair of six inch silver stilettos.

She looked bloody well gorgeous.