"I told you," Ezra replied with a little shrug. He'd watched her face while she'd been looking at the photograph. he knew she was taking more out of this gesture than just the knowledge that he had always been fabulous. No matter how important it was that she know that.

"Aves and Lock don't look half as tragic these days, either," he volunteered lightly after a pause. "But you have to admit they had more reason to change than I did, over the years."