Well, they'd see if that compliment was deserved soon enough.  Explaining the need for subtlety, friends with Sharn priestess - a changeling too and her intimacy of her was not winning any points - and then they'd get to the reason.  Doxi had realized already this woman loved the build-up to things.  Okay, Xen'drik, that was getting somewhere... passes, excavation... ah, there it was!<br/><br/>"Yes... yes I do understand." she said, and made a note of wiping the moisture off of Marek's back "You don't need someone to take you to Sharn - any Blackpeak airship pirate could do that, and some well-applied but simple magic would keep them from knowing who and what you are with ease, the same sort of magic that lets<em>me</em>look like I do now, or any other way I wish to look.  No... you wanted<em>me</em>, me who is perhaps the<em>only</em>airship pirate<em>and</em>priestess in the faith to take you there... because<em>you</em>want me to go to Xen'drik myself and do as you ask, because who is more trustworthy than a priestess of the faith, and who'd be more capable of doing it than a pirate?"<br/><br/>She made a show of standing, but left the leash with Marek, that he may stay as he is now as he looked the woman in the eyes.<br/><br/>"So you ply me with compliments, offer to be my friend, and don't readily offer information other than to suggest you know more about me than my own<em>mother</em>would let out in the hopes that I'll take you to Sharn, and when I'm there you'll 'mention' the Xen'drik artifact and I'll offer to do it out of the goodness of my heart, and to help a 'friend' and fellow priestess, is that right?" she said, taking a few measured steps closer to the woman "Unfortunately for you, I know that particular game, all too well.  Not very fond of it used against me.  So how this is going to continue is you'll be frank and honest with me, Cassandra, and we will discuss how much passage to Sharn upon my ship will cost you, and how much this privateering venture will cost you in addition.  I can assure you that neither will be particularly cheap, the latter especially so considering the 'delicate' nature as well as the 'delicate' actions you'll be asking me to take with my 'reacquisition,' I assume..."