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25/09/----

Sorry I missed you, but stay out of my goddamn head.

— JH

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[verbol]

[a little exhausted, wryly:]

I'm not going to a banya any time soon. [a beat. ] Or anywhere, at this rate. What do you know?

[erosive]

[ Dude. ]

I think Lottie and Strange were killed by a spirit. What happened to them fits it perfectly—the marks down Lottie's back…

[ … ]

If it gets out, we're fucked.

[ Good thing you're down a well, I guess?? ]

[verbol]

What kind of spirit?

[This feels, as fucked up as it is, better. Like having a name to work with will make all of this feel less like the rug's been pulled from under him. ]

[erosive]

A bathhouse spirit.

[ Is it better, Jim? Perhaps it is unless they have a bathhouse in that well. ]

You've never heard of it.

[ It's not a question. Zoya's beginning to realise this is a theme. ]

[verbol]

No. Maybe? We don't have bathhouses back home. They might have had 'em in Russia, but I was otherwise indisposed.

[erosive]

Would asking why you were indisposed be considered rude?