Elias shook his head once, firmly. "I haven't made myself clear if you feel that I suggest running. Although I sympathize with your alarming circumstances, I am not asking you to avoid them. Ms. Shepherd, we -- all of us -- need more information about what happened to us, and what continues to happen to us. I suggest research. Will you reconsider?"
There was the matter of expense, should this woman get a hotel. There were answers to that, too. "I have some hotel points that could offset the cost. You would be doing me, and the others, quite a favor -- although, none of them have told me that they continue to experience other odd things. It's just you and me."
Could he do this himself? But no. Dov was still a stranger, and although Elias had allowed the kid to stay at his apartment, it didn't make sense that he would go to a hotel with him -- and Elias wasn't yet comfortable enough to have the kid stay there for a week without supervision. He shook his head again. It would have to be Ms. Shepherd.
Then -- he also had two other people to speak with in the next two days. Possibly they could be convinced, if Ms. Shepherd could not.