While Scar was talking memories with the cause of the time loop they had found themselves stuck in, the rest of his adventuring party - and now fellow prisoners - were busy once more in the search for their target.
However, it was leading nowhere. They thought that they had made some progress when they discovered that, while there were no missing people, that didn't mean there were no empty houses for him to hide in for the day.
So they searched the houses of those at work, and thoroughly staked out the house of a man who had been taken to the local doctors early in the morning - much earlier than when they had appeared - and was spending the day there.
Yet these empty houses were just that, empty. It got to the point that they started to seriously consider if they had been tricked. That if, somehow, Cratos learned of the prison-like nature of the town and set up a trail to lead any pursuers here to be trapped.
