Matron Serra tapped her chin.  "Well, we had a powerful mage put her curse ... hmm.. I don't know how he put it.  Basically the way I understood it was that he used powerful magic to put it to sleep.  Do you have a mage on this ship?  I can't imagine that you have a dragonmarked member of house Lyrander to fly this ship, and as far as I know the only other people that can force a bound elemental into submission are powerful mages."<br/><br/>Despite the matron's total nudity, her eyes were hopeful.