Talion:
" … speaking of. Mistral, when you used your wish I took the liberty of looking around and winding back the clock for a few hours. I got license plate numbers."
He slid a piece of paper with 7 different license plate numbers scrawled on it in Talion's spidery handwriting. "We may finally have the means to locate them."
Mistral took the slip of paper with the license plate numbers and scanned them, one by one. She asked,
“These vehicles gathered at the location prior to the husk’s take-over? Très bien. This, we can work with.” The plates would likely be registered to false names or shell corporations, unless the cultists (or whoever was responsible for that debacle) were comically incompetent. Even so, it was a lead. Mistral handed the paper to Fate and asked her,
“Madame Fate. You have experience as un détective, non? Have you means to trace license plates?”
Fate:
"Unfortunately, I kind of figured that. Was just hoping that there may still have been a chance if anything. A fool's hope I suppose... Guess I'll just have to get the next one, though I do hate losing a mark. If there is a way I can increase my mage ability in a way that would help me find and capture future marks or help me find magical items for my order I would be most interested."
Mistral listened to Fate lament the loss of a bounty, which they had suspected might be involved in the husk mission, though they’d found no sign. She chimed in to offer,
“I may be able to assist. Have you anything physical of this mark? Blood, hair, or similar physical remnant would be best. Failing that, any token with a bond to the mark may do. Information on their recent activities?” Mistral was tired and still wounded from their ordeal with the husk, so it would perhaps be wise not to begin a new hunt immediately. Planning, however, would be entirely possible.
Oh yes, the wounds. Mistral rolled up a sleeve and looked at the abyssal wolf-bite for the first time since their return. She showed Talion,
“Some of us were bitten by the abyssal severed wolf heads. Timely cleansing and treatment would be advisable.” She paused, and added drily,
“We have seen the ultimate prognosis of such a wound. Désagréable, to say the least.”