"...Taimi, are you sure that..."

"He said magic questions wouldn't distract him so I'm askin' until he contradicts me!"

"Oh, believe me, I'm maintaining concentration. That does mean I'm going to need questions one at a time, though."

She writes them down into her computer and asks them one at a time.

The number of dimensions possessed by the Astral Plane is hotly debated by people much more intelligent than Haruk! The mapping of coordinates between the Material and Astral is insanely complex and generally not useful because there's nothing in the Astral Plane except ambient magic! The Inner and Outer Planes are contained by the Astral in the same manner as the Prime Material, in such a way that only parts of them intersect with the Prime Material, and you can enter them via the Astral if you have a special tuning fork!

In this manner an hour's worth of questions are (mostly) answered and (almost invariably) raise further questions. Once an hour has passed, though, the mirror fogs over.

"Oh! This is the good bit," Haruk says. "Your Trahearne should show up in a few seconds."

The others did not stay around for the hour of magic grilling, and James in particular finally delivered his report to the General, but by the time the hour is almost up the tent has—well, everyone. Everyone Haruk met plus a couple of people he hasn't.

Trahearne is... in a plant.

His face is just barely visible through the translucent wall of a fleshy pod, which sways with unseen movement. 

    "Commander, tell me you have any idea what that is," pleads General Soulkeeper.

"I should not lie to my direct peers in the Pact."

    "Fuck."

"He's being moved somewhere. He's still alive, then, but that means Mordremoth has some use for him, if he wasn't just killed."

"Are the others—were they also captured?"

"One person per scry," James says, shaking his head. "Though I have a bad feeling about what we'll find with everyone else."

"...tell me who you need."

Eir Stegalkin—Braham's mother—was aboard one of the ships, and whatever fate befell her probably befell some other important and powerful people who were on the same ship. After her, they will need to check on the other ships' captains—if they survived at all, having even a rough idea of the terrain surrounding them could prove invaluable to actually finding them and rescuing them.

"Right. Taimi, if you'd stay and continue picking my brain it'd be much appreciated. The rest of you can go."

Hoo boy does she have questions. They can absolutely fill the time of several scryings!

And Haruk has answers for some of them, and acknowledges others as very good questions he doesn't really have an answer for, and once an hour, he reveals the location of another scrying target.