Ruli snorted when Kire called them hopeless, releasing his grip on the bars to pace again. He dug his knuckles into the small of his back, as if trying to ease the pressure the wards sent against his spine. Ysaryn smirked at Ed before looking back to Ruli. "I will stay with you." She told him as the Amrian's filtered out. "Maybe gossip about these elves will make you feel better, hm?"
"Easy." Zeke warned, and both Ruli and Ysaryn shot him a dark look. "They [i]are[/i] helping us, if you haven't noticed." He turned and followed the others, leaving Ruli and Ysaryn alone. 

Tailing behind the others, Zeke studied the three from behind. Kire seemed to chomp at the bit often, while Ed was the stone to her fire. Sturdy, strong, grounded. He hadn't decided on Narda, yet. But, Gods, she was tall. His grey eyes roamed her strong shoulders, wondering how Envy felt about her. 

Aera stood on the second tier, along the edge where she could watch them approach and they could see her well enough to know in which direction to head. Before her, on the marble railing, was a cup of tea brought to her by one of the servants, already half gone. Calming tea, for her nerves that had frayed when she debased herself by speaking to him. Aera inhaled and sighed, sipping once more as the group crested the stairs. "I am having the map brought here." She offered before they could inquire about the lack of papers before her. "Have you all eaten?" She wondered in return, turning to have something brought out, regardless. 

When the maps were delivered, by a tall blond male with dark blue eyes who frowned at Ed as if the Amrian had displaced him, he splayed it on the table. With the corners weight down with small stones, Aera dismissed him and stood before it. It was quite vague; it seemed the Raielwen were not willing to divulge much in regards to their territory. "This," Aera pointed to a spot on the map that beheld nothing but empty space. "is where you entered our territory." She informed them as if she could see far more than they could on the sparsely adorned paper. The the princess drew her finger sideways, to the west. "This is where we found the majority of your men. These markers indicate where each was found, in order. You were the third." She added to Ed, glancing at him from beneath her dark lashes. "The first was your brunet soldier with the freckles. The second is one of the three who did not make it." Her fingers tapped on the corresponding markers. 

"Not long before, we felt a surge rip through our wards. A power that was unsettling and dark. Part of it moved, away from our borders. We were inclined to lie in wait for the rest of the disturbances to settle, but there was something about the way you all felt. So we investigated."
Sighing, she went back to the map, gesturing to a blank spot. "This is where the disturbance originated. If I had to guess, this is where your gate is. I forbade my people to go near it, and to give it a wide birth." Aera swallowed. For all she knew, more bodies lay near it, abandoned for the sake of safety. 

"To get there, we will deliver you to the edge of our borders, then you head due west for two miles. When you begin to feel it, angle yourselves southwest, and its not far." Her finger tapped a spot, the edge of their territory where they would exit. "Just tell him to return you here, and it will be easy to find." Aera said, meaning Ruli and his Walking. Not once yet had she been able to say his name.