"You have to get used to him, Mr Valeska. Our dear Mr Crane here takes his Scarecrow act very serious. He's a true professional." Edward explained it calmly, sounded reasonable enough. He held on to the seats himself, while the car started, the horn sounded and, yes. That was the sound of several bodies hitting the ground just behind them. Lovely.

"All aboard the shag mobile," Jerome announced loudly, while he sounded the horn again and took a shortcut over most of the pavement. To the Narrows was quite a bit to go, but it was late enough that there wasn't much traffic at least.