[It's a vivid-enough description he can use it; the details of it are surely wrong, but it will do for a locus to store the memories of this conversation beneath. Third floor of the tower, around clockwise from the stairs, inner room--]

That's something I don't know to say as whether they had--but it'd seem safer to assume they didn't. Some of them had to be elsewhere when he was brought in, and he's-- [...He finds himself struggling with his own memory--rare feeling!--to retrieve something he'd noticed about the rifter. It slips his grasp.] --mm, don't remember. But might be worth asking them all if they did see him.

Or maybe they simply had to be close enough when he was brought here--close enough to the places where the Veil's already weak.