“Was Livy’s Pool anywhere near Paradise Street?” Doctor asks Lorenzo.

“You talked of Paradise Street earlier and that shows me I was right to make the inscription I did. For a long time, that street down by Livy’s Pool was called Paradox Street for all the strange happenings that were contrary to common sense. Goods appeared and disappeared without explanation. In fact, they travelled in both directions through tunnels by the dock that lead straight into the fracture. The very word dock comes from that street-name. The men who loaded and unloaded the ships would never say “I’m going to Paradox Street”, they would say in that thick accent of theirs, I have heard them myself: “I’m goin’ down the ‘dox.” Over time that became ‘dock’. But you want more than etymology, Doctor.”

Lily cocks her head and points with an open palm to Lorenzo, while looking at Doctor, as if to say: “Now, that’s what a scouse accent sounds like.”