>Extend thanks.
>You offer the woman thanks, which she acknowledges with a perfunctory bow and little else. Duty discharged, she takes brisk leave of the room and descends the stair once again, leaving the two of you to sort through her delivery.
>Sekibanki is at work even before she is gone, unfurling a series of charts one after the other, as though she were dissatisfied with what each prior one had to say.
>"It's in this area somewhere," she says, circling an unpleasantly large region near the far extent of the one of the widest-ranging maps. It is not that dissimilar to the one you examined at the library, to be honest, though some of the others are far more detailed. There are indications of numerous walkable paths within several miles of the fort - probably some of them form patrol routes, though none of these charts seem to indicate anything revealing about the fort's own activities, to the point that you assume it is intentional. Beyond that, the curve of the rivers is indicated with considerable precision, with markers for fordable crossings and barely passable terrain. Both the terrain and the maps themselves grow poorer further out, though you can still spot a few potential routes that avoid some of the worst of the elevation changes, assuming the topographic markings are accurate. The old mining sites you've heard referenced several times are clearly indicated, and are also a fair bit out of your way. There are even some hints of cabins near the Grau and elsewhere, though only a few.
>Sadly, it looks like even an ideal route cannot avoid climbing up and down and around a dozen different hills, if you want to go that far out - so basically what Sekibanki already said.
