He ignored her question about the disappearing trick. Not important for the moment. He could answer that later. He bent sideways, peering around the altar to peer toward the hole in the wall near the other end, listening. "Yes, I found it." He answered, turning back around in time to see her show off the little reddish gem. He narrowed his eyes at it, then at her. Would explain why she decided to dismember a corpse. "So your mage was involved." He said, neither question nor answer. He looked up at the mosaic spread above them on the wall, thinking about what that meant. What changed. 

[i] “What happens when they touch you?”[/i] He grunted, looking back around the altar toward the hole before he looked back around, whispering. "Put simply, touch-based telepathy. And they aren't nice about it. I don't recommend testing it." He exhaled, puffing out his cheeks. 
"While I commend your ability to take down the one, the others won't be as easily caught off guard now that they've gotten a better understanding of what you can do." He turned his head to peer at her, his pale eyes peering into her mismatching ones. "I would suggest taking on the male. They're female-led, it will piss her off to be ignored."