Ryleh was very careful about the transfer of her equipment and other things, as they needed to be able to continue to monitor events within Agartha, especially as pertaining to Chan and his new servant. She watches carefully when their conference finally ends and keeps track of the Silver as best she can, so they can trace him back to any potential portal...
Dantyres travels south for about four days, travelling by air but in the shape of either a tern or a gull rather than his native form. Not long before Ryleh's immense hoard is transferred beneath Ryo's cottage, she notes that he reaches the shoreline of one of Agartha's great inland seas. He turns east then, following the coastline as a vast mangrove swamp looms ahead.
He touches down about five miles into the tangle, in a clearing dominated by a large rock formation jutting out of the surrounding sand and water like the spine of some long-dead creature. The stone is much darker than the sands around it, and laced with some form of crystalline deposits. Bobbing slowly above a gently sloped portion of it is a faintly glowing aperture...