"Hmmmm. Right. That matches my prediction- if you really built a human face by... randomly selecting traits independent of one another, from across the entire gene pool... most of the time, it'd come out looking wrong, an uncanny valley effect. Unless... I mean, unless the way you process those things changed when you became a demon... on average, human brains recognize pretty faces by how close they approximate the average features of their population. If all traits seem uncorrelated, and they still look 'fine' in general, that implies there's a more complicated selection going on behind the scenes. Whatever it is that makes daeva faces wants them to look okay, on top of looking human."

Max's grin indicates that he believes himself to have stumbled onto an important conspiracy.