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Catherine listened to Anki with an annoyed expression after they tried searching around the Elven Quarters for a bit. Their task was definitely going to be even more exhausting than she had previously imagined.

[color=ed1c24]"We know basically nothing about our target then... Great..."[/color] she said, with a sarcastic chuckle just after she heard Anki saying that this female elf was 'indistinguishable' from the rest of the elves in Cendana. 

[color=ed1c24]"I agree with Anki. Actively going around searching for something we know nothing about isn't really an option. Especially if whoever we're trying to find doesn't want to be found."[/color] She said, sighing.

[color=ed1c24]"Whether we will take the passive approach like Anki said or actively try going around as tourists and asking is up to you. Just don't expect me of be of much help in the latter one."[/color] Catherine said with a chuckle as she started rummaging through her stuff for a moment, before she grabbed two different vials, one with a gray-ish liquid and another one with a clear one.

[color=ed1c24]"Regarding what you said about an invisibility potion though... Invisibility is a very expensive, complicated and very unstable potion. One small change in temperature, concentration of the reagents or even too little or too much light while mixing it might cause the entire batch to go to waste. Luckily, I have something almost as good though."[/color] She said as she slowly poured the contents of one vial into the other one, gently mixing it as the mixture began taking a very light gray, pearlescent tone.

[color=ed1c24]"I discovered this potion completely by mistake when I accidentally ruined a batch of invisibility potion by mixing it with the extract of the gland of a specific creature that utilizes pheromones to hide itself from predators. It works by bending light around you, not enough to make you invisible like a proper invisibility potion, but enough to hide most distinguishing features. Normally this would have almost the opposite effect you would want from an invisibility potion, turning you into a blurred, barely defined but easily seen silhouette. But the pheromones trick the brain into 'making up' the rest of the information it doesn't have."[/color] Catherine said, explaining as the liquid gradually changed tone until it finally got stable.

[color=ed1c24]"To others, you would look like a perfectly normal, 'random passerby' in the corner of their eye... As long as they believe you to be exactly that. An unimportant, random passerby. The moment they focus their attention on you, the complete inability of their brain to gather any relevant information, such as recognizing any discernible feature will basically send it into alert. The conflicting information being processed by their brains, with part it wanting to 'make up' for the information they don't have, influenced by the pheromones and the other part of their brain trying to focus and identify the information it doesn't have will immediately make them realize that there's something going on. In their eyes, you'll look like a blurred, out-of-focus image of yourself. Kind of a dead giveaway if you want to be discrete."[/color] Catherine said as she handed the potion to Anki.

[color=ed1c24]"Obviously, this potion won't be of much help to the one who will be pose as the tourist. Although it might help the others to not be around but not being noticed while Dumas tries asking around."[/color] Catherine finished as she waited for their decision.

[@Martian][@Kumbaris]