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“Excuse me, I’m sorry,” John said, “I’m sorry, we are looking to secure passage to Cornwall. Do you know of any—”
“No ship,” she said.
John blinked. “Excuse me?”
“No ship to Cornwall,” she said. “Doesn’t take passengers.”
There followed a long silence.
John spoke. “There’s no ship to Cornwall that doesn’t take passengers?”
The woman said nothing.
“So there is a ship, then?”
“Doesn’t take passengers!” she barked.
Iris stepped forward. “We don’t need anything luxurious,” she said in her eager voice. “We just need to get there.”
“In fact, it might be more fun to have a rough passage,” John said. “To feel like a sailor.”
A man’s gruff chortle erupted from the rear of the tavern. John had felt sure the patrons would be flattered by his wish to experience the sailor’s life.
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