"Well, it was smuggled in," he explained. This was not the first time he had mentioned this, but he was past being irritated about repeating himself to the Ministry as a general entity. He'd much rather talk about this with Zelda than talk about anything else, so he didn't mind filling up the air with this re-explanation. "So it's hard to say exactly where it went. When we on-load cargo there's typically a working party from the pier to the deck, and then once everything's onboard everyone moves it from deck to the hold. But if I were trying to smuggle a chest somewhere, I wouldn't leave it on the pier for the working party," he said with a shrug as he continued guiding her belowdecks. "I'd bring it on after everyone else had left for the day and take it directly down. After all the rest of the cargo had been loaded up."

Did it matter where it had been before it had been opened, though? It had seemed so innocuous when he'd first found it, not like it was actively cursing everything around it. "It, ah — it didn't start... leaking until it was opened, though, did it?" he asked tentatively. "It was in the hold when it was opened."