Fuckity fuck fuck fuck. Why couldn't she keep her bloody mouth shut? Ren entered, absently cracking her knuckles as she tried to put into words how badly she had screwed up.

"So."

Fuck. Better to just come out with it. "I really cocked up, Corbin. 'Nd, it kind of affects you." Because she was a moron. "We were talkin' me 'nd the others 'nd I said somethin' that wasn't true and they definitely goin' to ask you why I said it 'cos it's so out of the bloody left field but y'were the only person I could think of in the moment--" She had totally blanked on Harry's name.

"--and I need y'to do me a serious favour." Ren blurted out in a ramble. "'Cos if they figure out why I lied, it's over for me." She couldn't let on to Rowan and Silent know why she'd lied.