"Yess, that would be ssmart. I can fly you there now?" 

"Thank you, Skan." Flying is SOGOOD.

It's also kind of necessary, in this case! The eyrie where Urtho does the spell is a different one than the gryphons' usual living area; it's a sort of terrace higher up on the Tower, and while it looks perfectly accessible from inside, the door is locked. 

Skan glances around, then points at a corner, which has some tasteful ivy draping up against the stone. "I think you could hide there?" 

"Probably!" She tucks herself behind ivy experimentally. "Why does he do it here instead of the normal eyrie?"

"I don't know. Lesss crowded?" 

"I guess. Can you see me?"

"No! ...Unlesss you move, then it russtless." 

"Hmmm... I can probably hold still enough, is breathing enough to rustle the ivy?"

"Let me watch a bit." Skan watches the ivy very very closely. "...Not enough that he'd notice, I think? Ssince there'ss ssome wind anyway." 

"I could turn myself green but that wouldn't help if it's just moving. And he doesn't see as well as you..."

"True. He probably wouldn't be paying closse attention, either." 

"I'm actually a little worried he'll spot me with mage-sight, he might use that for casting the spell. And I can't be just behind too much stuff to see because I need mage-sight to see the spell."

"Oh. That'ss a good point. Iss there anything elsse here that'ss magical, that you could hide behind or ssomething?" 

She looks around.

There's shielding on the stone wall, though that's pretty low-magical-leakage, like all of Urtho's work, and doesn't look much like a person's life-energies. The ivy itself gives off ambient life-energy, enough to at least blur a person's mage-aura. ...Also there's a gutter pipe or something, to one end of the enclosure, which has some sort of stronger magical signature, maybe for self-clearing debris that ends up inside it from the roof. 

"If I'm behind the ivy then I'll be indistinct, but I'm not sure I want to count on that... since I'm pretty sure you can get around needing the spell at all I might just not risk it."

"That'ss fair." Skan glances around some more. "You could hide up there?" He gestures at the next flat section of roof above this terrace. "I bet Urtho wouldn't look up. But - I guesss the gryphonss coming here could fly in from above and then they'd ssee you." 

"They might, yeah. I wish he'd do it in the eyrie, I could just hide under you in your nest and be very well covered!"

"That'd be more convenient!" Skan agrees. "Oh well." 

"Oh well. Next time he turns somebody down they can try my idea, maybe."

"Ssure! I will let you know. Should I fly uss back down now?" 

"Yeah, thank you." On she climbs.

Skan flies her back down to the courtyard. 

"How'ss the book coming, other than that? Any more good picturess to sshow me?" Skan has tried valiantly to read draft chapters for her, but the beautifully-done drawings are by far his favourite part. 

"You've seen all the pictures! But I'm making good headway on the writing."

"How much longer before you finissh it, do you think?" Skan is bouncing a bit. He is SO PROUD of Azabel who is writing a book because she's the SMARTEST.