"A friend of mine here was cursed. Percy. You should ask him about it." Scanlan had helped him become uncursed, thank-you-very-much. "And technically my best friend, too, but he's not here. But what I do know is everything has a solution. Sometimes the solution sucks balls, though." Like dissolving a cursed gun into acid. Okay, so that had been a little fun for Scanlan.

"Maybe you're just unlucky? Or maybe all those bad things actually led to better things?"