Voss put his fingers to the tip of his nose and checked them for sugar. It gave Felicity a whole second to enjoy the fact that the man who could tell which of nine dead people had seen her from behind a bus had spent half the evening sitting around with a marshmallow on his face.
"You could've said something," he told her.
"I could have, but you were very handsome and very serious about everything. It improved you enormously." She took his hand to bring him through. Behind them Victor settled in with the cubs, and Damien waited until she had put Luna's marble back in her little bag and tucked it by the girl's blanket. His parting contribution was to fix her hair where a small sticky hand had put a bit of cloth in it and give her a kiss on the temple.
