"It's definitely not the power of time, I didn't sense any temporal fluctuations."
Shard handed the brooch to the witch, who accepted it with great interest. She then walked in the direction the unicorn had left, and at a certain point, the unicorn's hoofprints suddenly disappeared, indicating it probably took off and flew a short distance away.
Continuing the pursuit, all traces vanished. So the witch used spellcasting materials—her own small stone statue—to perform a High Ring Sorcery that directly perceived the moving objects in the entire woodland, but the elf and the unicorn were still nowhere to be seen:
"There's reason to believe they have already left Randall Valley. But that doesn't seem right; the unicorn's flying speed isn't that fast."
"Maybe the power of space?"
Shard also did not know the reason for their disappearance:
