She shakes her head. "I didn't bargain with the pool," she says, in a tone of voice that makes it sound as if he just suggested forming an alliance with a loaf of bread. "I found this... thing. I... I can't even remember what. And it spoke to me. Said it could offer me things, things I wanted, for a little service. And I... arrgh, I can't even remember what I did. But, I did some task, and it... it led me to the pool, and it told me how to use it, and... I did."