Eriape's evacuation order comes in the middle of the night. This doesn't really matter, of course- the lair has run on its own rhythms for nearly a century- but they keep track. The skull spies spy on Westcrown, on the neighboring farms, on the world at large. Few people pay attention to a dead mouse, or the rotten corpse of a seagull left atop a building. And so Lady Eriape knows when it is time to move away from Cheliax.
The next destination has long been determined.