Miss Cartwright was taking this a lot better than Noble had expected — namely, that she was suggesting exactly what he'd wanted to do. He nodded once. "The easiest way to do it would be for the sea to drag her out," he said, and his voice sounded more clinical than he'd expected. The water was their only option, really — they couldn't very well carry a corpse around the Sanditon, they were bound to get caught.

He was thinking very quickly now — less of the body as something he was responsible for causing, and more of the body as a logic puzzle they could solve together. They were going to make it through this. Noble was going to make sure of it.

"Which — the weather charm," Noble said; the way Mrs. Cartwright kept bobbing towards the surface, kept near the shore, had to be caused by the weather charm. "I can — try to play around with it." He had a NEWT in Charms, so — it couldn't be impossible.

And with the wind whipping around like this, something had to be up with the weather charm already. Probably no one would even notice.

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