Meanwhile, Mark was painting viscous hair color onto a brunette's gray roots, when he spied another customer at the door.

He dismounted behind the fir and tied the gray to a stubby cedar root.

The client had come in for a cut and touch-up of her gray roots.

The gray roots were showing through on the left side where the part was.

This time a small woman with hennaed hair and gray roots, wearing a bunny-print housedress, opened the door.

And with her head bent forward, Ronnie could see the gray roots in the chocolate-brown hair.

She was thin, with dark hair, but the gray roots were beginning to show and she was ready for another dye job.

He scrabbled at the cap, and then one of those gray roots slid easily around his neck.

He looked down and saw the bottle twisting and bumping away, one of those gray roots coiled about its neck.

Red blood dyed the water, just as gray roots showed in the soaked hair that topped a lifeless face.