The plane lands in Kahndaq, in the desert. Coming in at night and landing without an airstrip is challenging, but not to someone with the Drummers; talents. Autopilot and cloaking mechanisms stand up and beg for him.

He sets up a scanner from inside that plane. That leaves Elijah and Jakita to examine the site of the dig. Not that there appears to be anything there but sand for as far as the eye can see.

"Good thing I don't get cold," he says dryly, eyeing the sand. "This is the place where the city was last reported seen."