`` mango , will they find us if we stay on our current path ? '' that idea did n't seem to bother her as much as it should have done , as long as someone fed her now and again . `` the first thing we need is time . for another , she never rose to the bait . however , he reflected , i can always decide to speed it up . it would give him the time to figure out a way to tell her everything she had to know . 