Abasi thought that Etana's idea sounded like a good one and began wandering the streets, discreetly asking shop owners about a foreigner with black hair and green eyes, posing as that man's tour guide through the city and claiming that the man had wandered off when he spotted a friend. Shortly after he and the others had begun looking for information Abasi had learned from a local spice merchant that he had seen the man speaking with an Egyptian man in strange robes the day before. "They said something about meeting in an alley, I didn't hear where though." The man had told him, that was of no use to Abasi.

He continued his search until a water merchant told him that the man had stopped for a drink and the Egyptian had told him to meet in an alley between the wall that separated the rich from the bazaar and an empty building at this time today. Abasi paid the man for the information. The man hadn't known which alley it was, there were a few lining that wall, but now they would know where to look. He whistled loudly to signal the others that he had found something. Abasi hoped that one of the others would have discovered which alley they would be in but if not they would have to take the time to search the alleys one by one.