((Correcting some facts. Jacques saw the figures from a whole in the tower that was blasted open. He never saw the trio cross the regio boundary, as it was the interior regio boundary that was used, the one that is enclosed by the manor house on the mundane (or +3) side, and the castle, with the tower that goes 50 feet into the air on the magical/+5 side.
https://forum.atlas-games.com/t/1222-2b-the-fall-of-night/6575/9, note that later Jacques was placed in the courtyard...
Not sure that it is reasonable that anyone but Alexey and Deykin heard what was spoken among Apollodorus and Valerian and the two others. But, such is the error of memory...))