"Sort of," she said, "It's - um - trying to find out where the curse is thickest. Which is probably, but not definitely, where it started. But - can you show me?" Being shown around by J. Alfred Darrow on boats was, generally, something she should avoid. If it saved her some time, though - or if it at least convinced him she was doing something - then maybe this entire situation would be a little less awkward. Perhaps she should have read her assignment onboarding for this a little more carefully; she had, however, become distracted as soon as she read Pictish curse.

Wait. Zelda didn't know a lot about boats - and had stubbornly avoided learning about them for the past months - but this was Alfred's boat. If this was Alfred's boat, which she had not actually seen in daylight in a very long time, then it was probably the boat they had had sex on.

Great. Zelda didn't want to jump directly into the river at all.

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