hc that unlike humans, cardassians can’t distinguish shades of green all that well (they did evolve on a desert planet after all), instead describing shades of brown and tan and yellow in loving intricacies.
garak being drawn in by the soft brown of julian’s eyes the very first time they met. there is no word in Standard for it: ubunti’al... the shade of the land under the horizon just before the sun appears. watching the dawn was one of the things garak missed most about Cardassia . . .









