1. If they decide to go this route, they do have historical precedent to examine re: where Brother Gray hid it (or at least where Hoofmann found it thousands of years later).

2. Perhaps in horror at the possibility that some kind of permanence could be forced on her, Okota will reveal at this point that she's only able to impersonate specific people if they are already deep under her influence, and inducing that state is only possible when she has both her totem and her temple in relatively close proximity.