Xukhezur held the master
tracer gem in hand, and utilized it to hone in on the distance and direction of the stolen contents of the plundered armory. The majority of the signals lay about thirty miles to the northwest of where he and Lu'Vayla were currently located, and he telepathically bade his nearest optic orb to scout head of them in that general area, and inform him of any settlements or large groups of people it may come across.
"I'm grateful they sent me an ideal partner for this task, even if your involvement might prove brief depending on when you are called upon to return," Xukhezur said to Lu'Vayla once they had both taken turns using the gem to get an idea of where the stolen item were all located. They stood about a small copse of trees beyond the reach of Lithium, within sight of a stone bridge that spanned the nearby river, that wove its way through the sparsely forested rolling hills around it. Lu'Vayla had crossed the threshold of the interplanetary portal generated by the Batrachi Terminus an hour before, to emerge in a generally isolated location that lay fifteen miles to the to south. She had ridden to that bridge as she'd been instructed, astride a swift riding horse she had conjured. Donned in a hooded dark gray cloak and dark brown hunting leathers worn over her suit of nightscale armor, she'd been dismissed by others she had passed as an ordinary surface dweller. It was at the bridge, that one of Xukhezur's
optic orbs was used to contact her telepathically and lead the woman to him.
"Thank you. It's a nice change of pace from routine training and patrolling. It's the first time I've been given an assignment that has taken me beyond Toril, and I hope I can take in new additions to my spellbooks from here before I have to go. Ones that haven't yet been seen back home." she replied eagerly. "First let me conjure a horse for you, and help you reduce the size of your effigy, so you can fit it in your pocket or something," she suggested. "Sounds good, but you might also want to mask it from divination, so the fiends are less likely to locate us. I got involved in a bit of a skirmish with them, to help the people and our thieves escape. I didn't want to be responsible for arming fiends with our weapons and devices." He replied.
It wasn't long until Xukhezur and Lu'Vayla began to travel in a direction that led them towards the elven capital and the survivors of Lithium, not yet aware of the nature of their impending destination. They talked and shared their stories as they tracked the items borne by the thieves who thought themselves hidden, knowing that any attempt at scrying upon them might alert them to their continued investigation. Xukhezur's effigy '
Shroud' had been masked from magical detection and polymorphed into the form of an optic orb for the time being, carried in a pouch on his belt. However, it could still leap out and return itself to its true form should the need present itself.