And to the chorus of all of them, she speaks it far more bluntly - "No! That's madness, not by yourself. The desert will eat you whole."

She rises sharply up her hands planting onto the table. Leaning over it.

"It's utterly ridiculous, unless you take me with you."

- her people are not so quiet in their alarm. They shout the refusal almost immediately at the suggestion. Kashi is at her elbow almost immediately with it, tugging at her but Lakshmi does nothing more than straighten, one eyebrow raising in flat challenge to him or anyone else that would stop her.