She should've gotten to it sooner. She did the obvious things, checked the urchins' memories, figured out where they were now, arranged some very quiet magical surveillance. And then she did other things, because it didn't seem that high priority, and she was very busy. And now it's likely to destabilize the city and she needs to have the answer now, without tipping off Eriape.
She goes invisible, and she flies.
The undead badger that stays with the urchins in their warehouse. Does it, to a threnodic detect thoughts from a rod, see to be in constant telepathic contact with Eriape?