Noldi looked at me a little venomously.
"Looks as if you were a little premature, letting her go. We should have found out where she gets this kind of sparkle first!"
"Seemed the safest thing to do. We are only four, how could we handle her friends?"
"Bah, they wouldn't have known where she was. We could have kept her till we were good and ready to let her go."
I stood up, took out my pipe and filled it.
"What about this ship you saw, and the people around it. That's important, not this girl and her jewelry."
"We couldn't see much except that it was a ship and that it landed in the trees where it couldn't be seen from the sky. It's pretty big, and there are men moving around it. That's all."
"That's plenty! If we run into them, there is no knowing what they'll do. That ship was never built on this planet."
Noldi didn't smile or laugh. He just looked at me. Serious, puzzled, and a little scared.