Yeah, that's true. I never had much of a chance to think about it. [It started early, sure. But the sudden, rapid bleach was from something absolutely nothing anyone could have anticipated. Let alone tried to fix.]

[He spreads his hands, amused instead of anything else.]

Hey, we're even. I had you pegged for older too. [Maybe not much. Keith didn't look that old either, and the kid he'd known was pretty much an adult now.]

I get that, though. Time gets more than a little messed up between home and Trench.