Year: 1814
Place: Near the docks of London, England
Dialogue: Daniel and Aurora
Time: About 45 minutes after Aurora finished speaking to Mary Shelley
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Daniel: "Thank you, Aurora. I appreciate that you talked to this Mary woman by yourself."
Aurora: "Let us walk as fast as we can without drawing attention. Are you up to finishing this?"
Daniel: "So, yes, I've been thinking about this quest of ours. Let's just play it by ear, okay?"
Aurora: "Meaning I will interact with the authors directly. You will continue to accompany me."
Daniel: "I apologize for not being up to it."
Aurora: "Heck, there is nothing to apologize for - considering what you have been through."
Daniel: "You're cute with your substitute swear words. Actually, you're cute all around."
Aurora: "Oh, boy."
Daniel: "I mean, how did it happen? Did I seduce you, or did you seduce me?"
Aurora: "Oh, please no, Daniel."
Daniel: "Also, though I look masculine, I thought you could start calling me Dani again."
Aurora: "Sure, I like that name. Okay, move more briskly. I see the rowboat off in the distance."
Daniel: "You know what's strange? That Brie, the Navy office secretary, had me convinced."
Aurora: "I guess at the dockyards we all knew she lied a lot, so do not be too hard on yourself."
Daniel: "She strongly emphasized the sex and violence in the false spy stories she told me."
Aurora: "I am hesitant to ask, but what do you mean?"
Daniel: "She told me how as a teenager she got back at neighbors who stole her property."
Aurora: "Tell me: Did it involve three horses being beaten?"
Daniel: "Brie said it was three pigs. Wait, how did you guess it would be three animals?"
Aurora: "Instead, let me know: What other tall tales of espionage did she tell?"
Daniel: "Brie said that as part of her spy work she was assigned to beat a Jewish man -"
Aurora: "- with a whip? Know how you said you were going to kill Brie? I'm going to kill her first."
Daniel: "We should stop talking about her stories. So, where to next, Miss Time-traveler?"
Aurora: "We will be going to John Milton's residence in the seventeenth century."
Daniel: "Yep, he wrote Paradise Lost. From what area of his body are we taking a sample?"
Aurora: "I did not say we are getting a sample from John Milton."
Daniel: "What?! Please explain. On second thought, forget it. Let's just get to the rowboat."
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