Aw, shucks. His ears are pink again, but he's run out of the will to contradict her, just feeling pleased instead. "That so? Artists tend to be a little nutty too, sometimes. I feel like I'm pretty middle-of-the-road."

He pauses to linger over a picture of a mother with her child, and something in his face softens. He misses his mom quite a bit.

"Unh? Oh, geez, that much? I had no idea cameras could get that expensive."