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[If only by instinct, Noël is certain a place like this should be full of people. A huge mass of shops, all together under one roof? That's a guaranteed crowd at any time of day. The fact that it's empty is wrong..... but on the other hand, it is true that it's safer this way. Fewer people means less of a shield if anything should happen, but also less opportunity for a killer to blend in amidst the crowd.

He's distracted enough looking around at everything that he has to hurry after Lambo to stay close, now that they're safe enough for the younger man to wander.]

.....We may as well. It was probably poisoned back there, anyway.