Now there was a statement that he hadn't really been expecting to hear in this lifetime.

"Prettier?" He gave her a kind of... sideways look at that. "This is an improvement, you suppose?"

If someone else had said that to him, it probably would have come out as some desperate attempt to make him look at the bright side. Some way of making him think that it wasn't as bad as it actually was.

But again, it seemed to just be what she meant to say.