"Is that-" Vax almost asks her if that's Mildmay recurring in the pictures, fooled for a moment by the vivid red hair and the similar features. But lifting one of the portrait pages to look closer shows that it isn't him after all. Only someone with a strong resemblance, and a very different set of facial expressions.

Simon was much more interested in letting his lower jaw drop open slightly in what looked like an enthusiastic expression, you know, for a reptile, and leaning into the rubbing finger than whatever was being said.