There's also, of course, the difference between hair maliciously cut and hair that has been chewed on by a cute puppy. Luckily for them all, Barkley is the latter, and wagging his tail before dropping any hair he has managed to find to whine curiously at Ellana.

Merrill, meanwhile, has carefully stacked a few books up on the stone before clambering up herself -- that works just as well as Ellana holding them, and perhaps better, with her distracting the dog.