Redsand Canyon did he go on down the mountainside, and leave you all alone?

Though he doesn't have to think much to provide the answer, Colin lets the silence linger. Yes. There was not much point in lying. You?

He wonders what Riley saw in his face-- would it be the furrow splitting his forehead in half, which Ruth would constantly try and rub out to no avail? His greying hair? The scar on his lip? Or were faces simply another object to him, something without hiatus or nuance that just happened to move and convey an apocryphal language? There were many questions, and Riley was, to put it lightly, not a generous giver of answers.