<strong>Tinka nodded her head, "That makes sense, I don't know much about the sewers, but I can't fault your logic." </strong>She stopped Velma from storing the map in her bag and reminded her,<strong>"We can't take these, but don't worry, I've got just the spell."</strong><br/><br/>She spread the map out on a desk and laid out a piece of vellum, an ink quill, and an ink pot next to it.  Then waving her arms dramatically, possibly more dramatically than needed, and uttering some arcane phrases, the quill rose into the air and dipped into the ink well.  Tinka chanted for about five minutes, her focus on the map, as the quill moved of it's own accord and made a fairly reasonable copy.  The lines weren't as clean and the artistic style wasn't even close, but all of the pertinent information and passages seemed to be detailed.  When she was done the quill fell to the paper and she let out a long sigh,<strong>"Whew, I hate long concentration spells, don't you?  I mean, it's so hard to focus on just one thing for so long.  Like you have to keep your mind from not slipping into other things like the new halfling ale that came in last week on the..."</strong><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Velma had managed to somehow convince Tinka to let her do the talking half an hour later as they stood in higher up district of the city near the upper western wall.  The guardsman who had been assigned to watch the sewer entrance for them that they were about to go in nodded at the thick stone slab that led down into the warrens beneath the city.<strong>"It's none of my business missess," </strong>he said politely,<strong>"But we still haven't cleared out much of the tunnels west of  this location, under the ruins of the old city, so I'd stay out of there if I were you."  </strong>Tinka managed to snort, but kept her promise to let Velma do the talking.  Even now, looking east towards the sea, Velma could see the city sloping down away from them as it followed the hill, and wondered how deep below the city these sewers ran.  Of course she'd find out only about a hundred feet later as Tinka and she descended into the cool dark tunnels.  Here this far from the city center and close to the wall, the sewers were mostly unused, free from almost any sewage, though they still ran wet with water as they constantly shunted the daily rainfall down to the sea below.<br/><br/>Tinka, stepping off the ladder tapped her staff to the floor and the crystal began to glow with a soft but strong light and she asked,<strong>"So if I were going to avoid detection, I'd certainly go into the unexplored tunnels.  But I'm sure you already thought of that?"</strong>