Elphaba was green.

Galinda was her roommate.

This just did not seem right. Why should she, Galinda Arduenna, have to room with someone so freakish? The girl was green! She was too tall and too thin- entirely too awkward. And those sharp features!

She was just so... Galinda considered her for a moment. Exotic, she decided. Potential for a strange beauty. She was alluring.

And Galinda realized, in the midst of her thoughts, that she was a freak, too.