[It's a good thing huge numbers remain huge no matter where or when you're from, huh? Makes explaining things a lot easier when you can simply say something to the effect of "a metric fuckton" and be done with it. Not that he'd ever use anything so crude.]

I know. I'm thinking... [Wracking his brain for some kind of solution!] If we were in my world, we could borrow-- [Steal.] --an airship. Alas, we are not, thus rendering the notion moot.

[They're at least smart enough to think these things through before acting? That's something to their credit....]