"Are you -certain- that little ... contraption of yours is right about the Nexus Crystal being in the marshes?"
Jinx stared hard at the screen that was displaying several magical wavelengths in various spots on blue and pink grid, “Ninety six percent sure, Boss. I wasn’t positive before, since the long range magic scanner only sees what wavelengths are where, and the Nexi aren’t really easy to trace like that because of their weird frequency. But I sent a mobile pinger to check. It’s basically a little whirlybird that’s got a tiny little Nexus shard that I got from the Maker down in his workshop. He even helped me make it by fusing the... nevermind, that’s not important. Anyway, it’s a flying machine that sends short range signals pretending to be a Nexus itself, so it gets a ping back as though it were trying to reconnect to the network. I tested it out on Stalwart, and he seemed to work with it, and I’m getting very similar readings from this area.
“On the four percent that it’s not a Nexus, then it’s someone else looking for them, and that would be almost as useful, in terms of information. They would probably know something about who actually does have one, and they might even have one hidden away. No matter what, that-” She accented the word by putting her finger down on the map she had copied. She was fingering a pink circle she had drawn on it, “Is the area we’ve gotta search. I can’t get any more precise than that without the close range scanner. And that’s not something I can send out on a whirlybird. It gets too much data for me to transmit it wirelessly. It has to be collected in person.” She looked up again, eyes serious, “Basically, what I’m sayin, is that somebody’s gotta go check it out. It’s vital for one of three reasons, depending on what happens. We get a Nexus, we get people that are lookin for Nexi and their tech for looking so I can maybe improve my methods, or we find out that my methods are faulty and I start from square one.”