[ ? ] -Ah. Surely people have already...

[ he's pretty sure they've been red at at least several points, by now? oh well. ]

What you've seen them as— [ greybrowngold and everywhere in between, ] is what they were— before.

[ before what? take a guess. ]

This close to the end, I figured there was little point in continuing to play pretend.

[ pretending what? at least one person here has the context to know. ]