"Wow, you think Landel would actually tell me to dump people out of the boat for no reason?" Harvey's laugh echoed across the lake before Charon suddenly grew sober. "Well, yeah, I guess he would be weird enough to do that, but!"

He gave a good, strong row with his paddle to emphasize his words.

"Nah, I just do that if I feel like it," he explained. "I mean, a guy like me, working in a place like this seven days a week? You do realize we don't have television or anything down here, right?"

Sheesh. Leave it to these guys to make everything more complicated than it needed to be. Thankfully, they reached the dock, which meant they were officially out of his hair now.

"All right, you crazy kids," he said, waving them off. "Don't do something stupid and die, now."