Admon was three hundred miles away from Westwilde according to Louane. She had used a ruler, a paper and a pencil to measure and to calculate the distance. Faye had been intrigued by the way she did it and asked Louane to teach her but when the lady started talking about the scales on a map and how they ranged from words and ratios to pictorial scales, it was obvious that Faye was beginning to lose interest.
She became completely uninterested when Louane said a string would be used to determine the distance if the line one was trying to measure was too curved for a ruler to be used.