Verity's not one for sugar-coating things. But he can always count on her to be honest.

"They wouldn't have where I was from. Really, you wouldn't be the weirdest thing someone in New York saw on any given day." But her world exploded, so, kind of a moot point.

"Yeah, I've got a picture phone and a lot of photos." Cables be damned, it's picture time. She fishes it out of her bag before moving to sit beside him, not quite touching but close enough they can both see the screen. "I'll show you how to use it, but there's a price. You have to let me take a picture with you."