Upon receiving Sir Flynn's next message, two immediate thoughts occurred to the princess: the first, that she hoped she hadn't sounded like she was brushing off the kind Acting-Commandant of the Imperial Knights in saying she wished to speak again after the curse, because really she wasn't and hadn't intended it to sound that way, and really it was only that she hoped their encounter today would not be the only chance they ever had to talk to each other; the second, that he was new to the City, poor sir, but while this was a very tedious curse indeed, there were far worse ones he might've been struck with for his very first curse. But she was always eager to help those in need, and particularly with helping new arrivals get adjusted to the City, so she quickly set about writing a reply to him.

"They generally end at midnight," she wrote, and then paused and clarified, "The curses, I mean. There are some that go longer, but I don't think this is one of them; the longer ones tend to be the really horrible ones, and there's nothing really horrible about this curse. It's annoying, to be sure, but it's not unbearable, having to narrate everything we say. So likely it'll come to an end at midnight, just like any other normal curse."

And no, the irony was not lost on her, to call something a "normal curse", but really, she hadn't come up with any better way of separating them out than that, so it would have to do for the time being.