He steps in and says, "While I would love to join you, I still have a bit of watch left. I was about to do a spell, but thought you might want to see the results. It is a scrying spell, and I thought you might... that you might have wanted to know what happened to your mother, after she was... attacked. A basic scrying two nights ago revealed she is still alive, and tonight I was going to do a scrying to get an idea where she is."<br/><br/>Maybe not the best idea, but bringing her mother back from the dead was definitely going to be a shock, better to ease the elven woman into the idea, before he up and left to go get her.