After Marcus arrived home a messenger of Buki arrived with a small ruin stone that had the ancient markings of Buki on it. It was a black stone with golden engravings. Yet it wasn't something one could easily hide as it was almost a miniature monolith about a book's height.
Over the next four years Marcus and Buki would communicate from time to time as he would with Ari and even Ono long after High Prophet Snowpelt had returned. In fact he was spending more time with the three of them then he was with Rebekah and the effects of it started to show as she slowly became very jealous of them.