Fashion is a very different language in this city than it is in most other places. Roland has responded to that by making his wardrobe as bland as possible - at least partly because of the looks it puts on his stylist's face - but it's also changed the way he reads fashion. What elsewhere might have read as girlish doesn't tend to show up well against the general background of extravagance and frippery, and doesn't make nearly as much impact on Roland as the idea that she's a fellow prisoner. "I've very little but time. There's not too much to show, though, 'less you like shopping. And drinking, I guess. Depending on how long you've been here, you've already seen this building."