"If we don't get arrested for murder, I suppose we can ask Roby."

Terrence has a lot more he'd like to say to Roby now.

"I think we should do some more research. Ask Roby and Valentine. See if anyone anywhere has written about this. ...I could maybe even ask Evie."

"...and maybe we should hide the body. Or at least consider it."

We might end up in the same place as Roby either way, Oscar thinks.

"More research sounds good. I am in favor of more research.

...is there a reason we can't just say there was an animal attack by something large and flying that we didn't recognize. There was an animal attack, the body is going to be consistent with an animal attack, hiding the body sounds strictly worse than saying there was an animal attack."

"...Inaaya, we won't tell them we hid the body. There aren't animals here that do that kind of thing.

...That said, going back there also sounds. Uh. Dubious."

"I'm not saying we would! I'm saying going back sounds dubious and I do not see a way to get the area looking clean with how much blood there was!"

"Does England have wolves? I can't remember if we have wolves."

"Not for a long time."

Why does Inaaya think police are going to believe us.

"I'm not in favor of leaving harpies to ravage the countryside either," Terrence agrees, "I assure you. I just, we won't be able to do anything about it if we're trapped in prison or the asylum."

"A little bit of dirt can go a surprisingly long way with hiding blood in the countryside."

Terrence at least understands the stakes. He feels a twinge of camaraderie for him despite everything-- and then, a strong twinge of disgust for Jing Yi.

"...I am not going to ask how you know that!"

"They're going to notice he disappeared, aren't they?"

"I don't know. He was a recluse. Sounds like he didn't have many visitors."

"They'll notice eventually."

Inaaya pulls her hair again. Harder this time.

"I-- am still not sure that 'we turned up and a man disappeared' looks better for us than 'we report an animal attack' but I admit I do not know much about English wildlife. I reiterate that hiding the body involves going back to the clearing."

"I'm increasingly in favor of just going. How would they find us again?"

"Can anyone at least suggest a plausible animal? --they might find us again if we come back to get rid of the rock pillars."

"We need to buy train tickets to leave. They'll be able to ask at the station where the tickets were for."

We are going to prison, we are going to prison, we are going to prison, Oscar keeps thinking, in a weird sing-song and detached voice. It's just there and there's nothing they can do.

"Okay, so they have to search London for us. Think this through."

"We'll - wear disguises or something if we come back. I don't know. I'll grow a mustache. That's tomorrow's problem. We don't have much time for now."

Come on! Come on. None of them have good ideas. They don't see it like he does, but he can make them understand this.

"--This is horrible. This is horrible and cowardly and selfish and more people are going to die. Are we really doing this?" Sal's voice is getting smaller.

Oscar is in fact selfish and a coward and has never done enough to help anyone especially now.

And he's going to prison and Hannah is going to find out and maybe even think he killed Jennings. Or to an asylum! Probably worse.

"I at least want Jennings buried."

Which he's saying out of pure self interest and not because it seems kind of callous to leave him out in the open. Definitely.