"It's alright.  I understand."  Ellen responded to the man.  "I don't necessarily approve of some of those options, but I do at least understand."<br/><br/>And she did.  The decision would have to be made in terms of a business move, with little consideration given to the people involved.  Not the sort of thinking she liked, but since she understood, she could frame the choice to negotiate in terms of being a good business move...<br/><br/>"I also think it would be rather easy to justify befriending them, though, given all that they could offer."  She continued.  "They were Air Genasi, you see, people whose heritage was touched at one point by beings from the Elemental Plane of Air.  At one point, they probably had a way to get to that Elemental Plane, and if they could get there once before..."<br/><br/>She let the implication hang there, unsaid.  If they could get there once before, they might have a way to get there now, even if they didn't necessarily know about it.  Games could be held on other planes!  And of course, the best way to get a chance to take a look around and determine that would be to make peaceful contact, to negotiate and be allowed in to take a look...  If nothing else, making enemies of them could easily be done at a later date, if it was decided that it was more profitable to do so, though she hoped that it would never come to that.