The two women looked at each other.  Vera leaned in and whispered to her mother.  Doxi's hearing was good, but she could only catch snippets of the conversation.  "...ground travel... enough time...trust her...something shady."<br/><br/>The two women turned back to the captain.  "Captain, I doubt my majordomo explained this to you," the matron began, "but we can't travel by airship.  We must travel by ground.  So I'm hearing your words, and while I don't want to offend you by disbeleiving you, they also don't make sense.  He would know that we wouldn't travel with you, if that's what you're suggesting, and I don't see any of my well known house guards with you, so you didn't bring us extra security.  So I don't understand what you want from us.  What is it that you're proposing exactly?"