If Allison can't really dredge up horror for the image painted, she can at least appreciate the economy of how they picked the lake against the notion that it is so long ago, in someone else's world, that it isn't entirely worth a dramatic reaction. It does get interest, though, for the same reason that Ben displays it and it has her nodding. The why now is definitely the parts she pondered looking off the deck toward the calm of the contentious waters.
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