[ Rumors aren't new to Iona — they proliferate, the more well-known a person is. (She's got her own share, though the difficulty in finding her in the first place has most of them petering off into an abject sort of silence.) She knows better than to put stock into most of them, the end result being that she doesn't seem ill at ease or anxious to even the smallest degree. If she gets bit (metaphorically or literally speaking) then that's that, a lesson learned. ]
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Why'd y' agree to 't, then?