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"Maybe they just use it for spying from a distance?" you muse. "There wasn't really anything stopping us from picking up the ring and moving it. So maybe they just figure they'll pick up whatever info they can if that happens."

"It actually wasn't that easy to pick up," Dominique says. "You might have been able to move it, but for a grebling it's nearly impossible without some way to deal with the enchantment. If they assumed there were no humans here, and that our equipment wouldn't be good enough to move it without breaking the enchantment entirely, it would be easy to think it was safe."

"The sphere I found didn't seem heavy, though," you say.

"Then I should have a look at that and see how it's different. It might have been placed by another faction for entirely separate reasons. Director, are we done here? If so, I'll investigate that immediately."

Yvonne looks a little disappointed.

"As much as I appreciate cutting meetings short, Dominique, there's one more matter I have to talk about first."