//Skimming the surface,// Jono agreed. //I only go really poking around deeper if I have permission.// Or if he was very, very angry. //But you can taste without really putting thought into it, so it isn't as though I have to go digging.//

Thank goodness for Emma, right?

//And of course you're welcome to change your mind at any point. I won't even sit there and give you miserable looks while you drink, if you do.//

He'd come to terms with not having a mouth a while ago. High school had involved a lot of sulking, though.