They sat down and drank, all of them, in silence. Laz wasn't trying to make a huge point or pretend to be something he wasn't, but he felt like he came off that way.
Leo and Lessa were shocked by how much Laz had changed. They had heard the news and seen the updates and warnings about him, but they just didn't connect him as the same person being talked about until this very moment. He was no longer the young man they had met years ago.