[It's an easy, businesslike trade, with all the finesse of undercover spies making a dead drop in a charming French cafe. And really, that should be the end of it; she could just put her book away and leave the other and get back to all the four thousand other things she's supposed to be doing, and Alhaitham could get back to calligraphy, and that would be that.
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[It's an easy, businesslike trade, with all the finesse of undercover spies making a dead drop in a charming French cafe. And really, that should be the end of it; she could just put her book away and leave the other and get back to all the four thousand other things she's supposed to be doing, and Alhaitham could get back to calligraphy, and that would be that.
Except she doesn't.]
...This is going to be a lot of work.
[She means the venue. Probably.]