“His hair, a soft ginger-brown color, was short and shaggy from his brow and over the crown of his head, but lengthened a sizable amount in the back, where it was tied off.”

“His head was covered with a shaggy mess of dirty blond hair, which morphed seamlessly into a disheveled, dirty blond beard, providing his head with an odd, shaggy nimbus.”

“Here was a shaggy boy, not quite a new young man, excitement and triumph and also fear upon its mold-smutched face.”