But for some reason Elkar did not feel worried about it. The moment the orb enters his body, he had the confidence that his instinct would lead him to them.
This is ancient magic of tracking. That is what he felt as the orb enters his body. This feeling is instinctual
This is the reason why when one is given a revelation by the divine relating to the location of something, one did not need a map or a marker to let them know
The forces of the world would conspire to let the quester to find the things that they were looking for, guiding the instinct of such a person toward the location.
Then Elkar shakes his head like he just awakened from some kind of lucid dream.
Opening his eyes, which he did not even remember closing, he saw that in front of him, there is no longer Astiel and Jurgan.