"Oh." Quint looks back the way they came. "I guess I should have checked a map."

"Dunno if I'd want to walk on a path that got beat up," Ballade says, after a moment of looking thoughtful about it. "It'd probably be all broken."

"Euphemism, Ballade," says Quint. "You know that's not what it really means."

"Yeah... but it'd be funny if it did. Then they'd have to have someone looking around trying to find who's been mugging paths."