Devin supposed he had walked into that one, given his reaction to seeing her in disguise. She was answered by silence at first as he thought about what to tell her.

"The story is a redhead," he said at length, tension strung through everything but his voice. Devin continued to work. "Specifically, a stunning and manipulative one." Which he had told her before; it wasn't just the red hair of the disguise that had bothered him, but the unfortunate similarities between Valdis and her.

A beat, two, and then: "Or at least she appears to be when pretending to be human."