Cersei's "read" of the amulet was indicating the same direction, downstream and bearing south, but as they drifted, she noted the strength actually hadn't changed significantly since shortly after they left the city.   Perhaps the impression of strengthening was a by-product of leaving the interference of so many other minds and essences.  The short of it was, though she had initially thought her target could be close, she was now not sure.<br/><br/>In a way, a distant hide-out made sense.  There wasn't a lot of travel, and not a lot of exploration, but hunters and scouts did range around the area, looking for evidence of Night Plague hordes and lost travelers and the like.  Stonebreaker and Shieldbiter had left the city a hundred years ago; if they had been close, it seemed likely someone would have found evidence of them before now.  However, the farther away from a city one went, the broader a range of places one could find to settle.  It was just a question of how far away the two ended up establishing their research base.<br/><br/>At the moment, the indicator led still downstream.  It was likely to do so until they came abreast of their target, when the "arrow" would point inland from the river.  That point was not yet, and the farther from Tarak they got before it came, the more potential for a serious hide-out there was.