all along

Duchess still silently looked at the sands around them, her gaze moving from the shore to the sky and then inland. She took in what Venom suggested, and she paused for a moment by a puddle of the ocean water that had been washed up during the high tide.

The water smelled deep of copper, and she noticed that it lingered in the sands as well. She wouldn't have known that the copper could corrupt an entire island but she could agree to what Venom had thought. "I don't suggest ingesting anything while we are here." She commented before continuing the walk over the emerald shores. "I don't suppose there's much else to see on a dead island." Maybe they should start to head back after they walked to the end of the main shoreline.

"Duchess"