In his defense, the enjoyment of children's toys had been an Echo, something entirely out of his control. But it is at least a harmless thing, so he has relatively little problem indulging in it, at least privately. It's less unsettling than other things he'd discovered about his Other.

And the reason he's small enough to look thirteen isn't something he casually mentions, anyway.

He blinks at the phrasing, tilts his head. He's never heard her speak that way before. "When did you start doing that?"