Blue was an experience that could not be adequately prepared for even with advance warning, which Roman had technically provided.
She was funny in the specific way that arrived before you decided to laugh, not performing it and not aiming for it, just saying things that were true and precise and happened to be funny. She had opinions about everything and delivered them with the confidence of someone who had been in enough rooms to know her opinions were worth having. She also watched Roman with a specific quality of attention that Seraphina recognised as the attention of someone who loved a person and was taking stock of their current condition.
