I wasn't "singing their praises." Odine's smart, but he's also a complete lunatic. And not particularly inclined to study on how to get us home, considering I've been here for two years and we've heard nothing - not that I particularly want to go home anyway. If anyone here can get us home, it's Esthar's scientists.

Basically, I don't trust them. At least you're close by, and don't have a whole country's defences watching out for you!