"Spell's working fine," Barek returns through the link. "If he's alone, then the meeting must not have started. Either that, or he's posted as the guard for it. Is his table conspicuously close to any back doors? If not, we may yet have to be patient until his co-conspirators arrive."
Seeing that the others are distracted with what is going on inside, Caridoc maintains his watch. Mostly concentrating on the mouth of the alley, he occasionally checks to make sure that no-one is sneaking up on them from the alley. In response to Barek's last question he responds "It strikes me that if we wait for the meeting, we'll either end up killing most of them or die ourselves. In either case we will probably be no further forward. I say we capture the red-head and question him."
"I'm for waiting. It is a fair possibility that the red head doesn't know all that much. If we capture him now, we may lose an opportunity to learn more from those he meets with."