"Why do you sound surprised by that?" Yang Qing asked. "The coin belongs to an organization that had more than one mythical race among its members. It's only to be expected that the affairs of such an organization would remain hidden, even long after they, and the organization they founded, had been lost to the dust of time."
Back at the Institute, when they were being taught the countless ways one could be tracked without their knowledge, the instructors had started with the more common methods, such as soul reading through acquaintances, the use of gu, spirit insects, and various tracking techniques and spells, before gradually moving on to the more esoteric methods, whose difficulty of detection and avoidance increased with each lesson.
Among those methods were tracking through karma and fate threads.
