If it weren't obvious that Elizabeth knows better, someone might think that she is speaking a little too openly with the strange woman from the bayou...but Elizabeth knows better and any way Tia Dalma only smiles more widely at the girl's indignation.

She's like a cat that has been dropped into water, really, all haughtiness and feigned indifference.

"The lake be a lake," she says, by way of answer. "It cannot be anything but what it is."

Of Jack and the Pearl, she says nothing, but when she turns her attention to one of the burning candles nearby, there's something very like satisfaction in her smile.