This is the most obvious place for us to go. Also with how many of us there are, not subtle that we're here. They could have guessed anyway.

[Light might not travel far, but there's still plenty of lanterns inside, light leaking through the cracks in their fortifications and from their patrols. All that to say, he didn't give away as much as he thought, and now they know the spirits can access the network. It evens out.]

Come in. Get something to eat. We'll talk schedules.

[They step back, rapping on the door for whoever's inside waiting to open the bar and let them in, while their eyes rove back around, looking and listening for potential attack at a vulnerable moment. The bar lifts with a scraping sound, and the door pushes open, and whoever is on the other side gets well out of the way.]