Her feet slowed as she looked back up at him. "Well, I could start you out on the shallow end: How'd you meet him, how'd you hook up, what's he like? Or we could just jump in the deep end with what's actually wrong."
Verity suspected that part of why she liked Percy was that there was something... sweet about him. Something little-boyish.
Or maybe she was just thinking that because she was staring at his bare feet. The guy had cute toes.