Steve would never say youth is wasted on the young--indeed, quite the opposite, he'd be the sort to opine that the old men who envy it would just waste it again if it were theirs, not having learned the first time through how to enjoy it. Even that is a harsher judgment than he'd prefer to voice aloud. He'd have no faults to find, on the other hand, with Verity's dancing: grace and enthusiasm count for a very great deal.

"I could tell. With real flying, and everything, even." Does he ever stop smiling when he's got Verity for company?