My Sharpie is Green, your story was great. And I'm glad I have another Poe fan with me!
Colorless
It's stupid to call anything colorless. If it can reflect light, it has a color.
Unless she's lost a patient. A baby. And she's learned to be surgically numb to it, she understands accidents, gets the careless mistakes.
But there's a flash, an instant, between the realization of it and calling it, that to her, the entire world is nothing, a Camazotz prison. She knows what colorless looks like, and she can't get it out of her head.
Reference: Ah, you have to be an obsessed fan like me to get this. Camazotz was the planet in A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. Its prisons were basically endless darkness for the people inside them. Seriously. Couldn't see a thing.