"I don't blame him, if I was boning the Captain.." He breaks off into snickers because he had not even planned that. Heh. Boning. "Anyway, if it was me I'd get rid of the dirt on my boyfriend too. Makes me think there was something in there that could actually hurt him. But I dunno what."

He'd read it, a few times, but only some of it had been fully absorbed.

"I dunno, I went to Friday to see if she'd pull Pickles out of the ship and put him in this cursed horse I had dug up in the island and she wouldn't do it. And told Ava not to meddle with necromancy."