"Mmm. A pity too. I would loved to have escaped by the water. I used to love sailing." She gave him a sympathetic smile. So many of them were running around, trying to contrive of an escape plan. But they weren't planning for the future.

Well, she was hardly the world police.

"So what's the next plan of attack?" she asked. "If the waterways are not an options...over land? By magical means, perhaps?"