<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Good point. :P</div></div><br/>Ellen sighed, shaking her head as well.  She had already known that they were dealing with someone who held some very strong beliefs, but to see that the woman was this much of a fanatic about it...<br/><br/>"Well, I suppose we could always try explaining our plan to her,"  The ghost thought out loud, having a bit of a dilemma about what to do next.  "How you and I merely flew out here to buy time for the ship to escape, and that if she follows the rest of her friends, we'll simply fly back to the ship, and alter our course so that it doesn't approach any closer to their lands?  Maybe if she knew that our intention was to head out of the mountains in the first place, she'd be more likely to accept that.<br/><br/>"Then again, at this point, it's looking more like she thinks we're going to kill her, no matter what.  Not exactly the sort of situation that would convince her to take us at our word...  Which means we probably are going to have to kill her, just because she won't leave us any other options.  Ugh."<br/><br/>If only they could somehow show her that they really weren't bad people, or at least that they weren't a threat...  That wasn't looking like it was going to happen, though, so instead they'd simply have to do the best job they could at the task they were hired for.<br/><br/>Ellen really didn't want to kill any people if she didn't have to, though.  She'd probably be able to handle it if there was no other choice, but she still wanted to keep trying to negotiate so long as it looked like there was a chance it might work.  And given the fact that the Genasi had stopped to talk again, it certainly looked like there was a chance to her...