Lunari seemed much more relaxed and comfortable on her return, and her appetite was healthy without being anything but polite.  She nodded at Nirael's plans adding,<strong>"I hesitate to think of what price a master wizard might ask for our help, and suggest we do not mention the artifact.  My belt, bracer, sword, and silk are all heirlooms from my mother and I'd not part with them if we can at all help it.  There's also a chance that what the wizard might want will be more than a material gain."</strong>She looked down for a moment deep in thought and added,<strong> "I'm not saying it's not a good idea, but it's an unknown that makes me as nervous as anything else."</strong><br/><br/>A thought occurred to her and she got up and went to the bar before returning with three clay cups.  Returning to the table she said,<strong> "Lets play a game, I want to show you how the disc and shaft work.  Put some coppers on the table."</strong>She waited for him to spill out a handful of copper coins onto the table and then put out a matching amount.  Then added a single gold crown.<strong>"The disc and shaft are drawn to each other.  I don't know if the shaft is still pointing to you after sun set, but I think we need to assume that is the case for safety."</strong>She took the gold crown and hid it under one of the three cups, then mixed the cups around.<strong>"Now, in this game lets say that I told you I hid a gold crown inside a cup, mug, or stein somewhere in this room.  Look around, how many of those do you see right now?  thirty, fourty?"</strong>She looked around nodding, leading his gaze around all the room.<strong>"The game works like this.  I tell you to guess one of any of the cups in the whole room.  If you guess right, I give you four copper from my pile, but if you guess wrong, you give me one copper.  We play until one of us runs out of money.  Now if the choice is from all the cups in the entire room, you've got almost no chance of guessing.  Especially if I move the coin after each guess.  It would be almost impossible for you to win.  But if I tell you that it's under one of these three cups, you've got a pretty good chance of breaking even, and it becomes a game of luck.  But eventually the odds are that I'm going to run out of copper and you'll win."</strong><br/><br/>She shuffled the cups and held her hands out for Nirael to guess.  She lifted the cup and showed the gold crown beneath.  Sliding a few coppers across the table to his pile she said,<strong>"That's what the shaft is going to do for the hunters.  It won't tell them exactly where you or the disc is, but it's going to narrow the field greatly.  It's only a matter of time before they catch up with us.  If we can run, put some distance between us and them, we can add to our pile of copper.... but it won't last forever."</strong><br/><br/>She sighed and scooped her coins back into  her pouch before making it vanish into her belt again.<strong> "Lets go see the Sheriff I guess."</strong>The trip to the sheriff's office wasn't good.  The sheriff indeed confirmed that a trio of rough looking men and a woman had been in town that very morning looking for a night elven woman with white hair.  The sheriff had told them they could ask about town as long as they didn't cause problems.  Which they hadn't, they stayed in town and talked to people for a few hours.  But they had then left town, heading west across fields.  The sheriff admitted that the direction they headed in held only farmlands, some burned out homes, and then wilderness.  But it was disturbing to know that there was a search party so close and so recently.  As they left the Sheriff Lunari looked concerned,<strong>"I had no idea they were this close on our tail.  Though we know they don't have the disc.  When we checked it last the shaft was pointing back to the north.  If the hunters were here in town this morning and had the disc, it would have pointed south.  But in any regard, we need to move and move quickly.  I think we should skip any shopping,  I've got enough trail rations to last us a few days at least.  Unless you want to go try to track down and ambush the hunters, we should move quickly."</strong>