<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/6D60Uq7.jpg)</div><br/>With the people being safely out and the turtle being, well, slow, Kieri had plenty of time to fetch Snuffles, who was increasingly becoming indispensable, to consult on this matter. The operations of the Docks were loud, there was no helping that. Ships coming in, people yelling orders here and there and so on. And the busier it got, the louder it would get. But there was a solution, perhaps not to extinguish all noise, but to help tremendously. A simple arrangement of baffles, spread here and there, throughout the section, especially near the docks proper and the custom house. They would cut down on echoes, stop noise from spreading so much and generally make the place a lot quieter. For the turtle, yes, but also, incidentally, for other residents. Kieri liked the proposal and presented it to the turtle, as well as to the two who were helping her.