Robaldo knows his way around town too, he's lived here for a while now.
Maybe not as well as an urban ranger who spent a round casting Lay of the Land.
There's a little alleyway over here that gets him back to the university way quicker.

Come along little Mud Buddy, he wouldn't feel safe going out at night without him.

Sense Vitals (2nd):

This spell makes your eyes shine blood red and allows you to see the vital areas and weak points of creatures within 30 feet of you as a warm glow. This allows you to use any manufactured weapon to make sneak attacks, as the rogue ability of the same name, dealing an additional 1d6 points of damage; this additional damage increases by 1d6 for every 3 caster levels you possess beyond 3rd, to a maximum of +5d6 at 15th level. This additional damage stacks with other sources of precision damage.

Bloody Arrows (3rd):

Whenever this spell’s target hits a creature with a ranged weapon that successfully deals piercing or slashing damage, the struck creature takes 1 point of bleed damage. Unlike most bleed damage, the bleed damage dealt by the subject of this spell is cumulative up to an amount equal to 1/2 your caster level (to a maximum of 5 points of bleed damage at 10th level).

She'll save her Many Shot and Rapid Shot for the first round of real combat, on the surprise what's most important isn't doing enough damage to kill a herd of elephants, it's making sure he can't get away.

Stristyko did his research and knows Robaldo's a diviner. Surprise isn't worth much on them but if you can stop them getting away it's worth enough.

She's wielding a Phase Locking short-bow. It's not her best hunting bow, nor her most powerful, it's just the one Stristyko says to use when assassinating this particular kind of wizard. Damage isn't going to be the problem anyway.

She's just under 30 ft away, behind him. The wolves are trying their best to be quiet another 60 ft away at the opposite end of the alley.

Game over, little holy boy. You shouldn't have pissed off my master.

Loose.

Footnote: This represents Discord chat's considered opinion over a full day of thinking as to what Estrella and Stristyko's best available strategy is.

The magically empowered arrow speed along towards its target, before suddenly veering sideways into the Mud Buddy carrying a small-sized Arrow-Catching Tower Shield:

A shield with this ability attracts ranged weapon attacks to it. It has a deflection bonus of +1 against ranged weapons because projectiles and thrown weapons veer toward it. Additionally, any projectile or thrown weapon aimed at a target within 5 feet of the shield’s wearer diverts from its original target and targets the shield’s bearer instead.

The fuck.

Robaldo has chosen to specialise in Divination, sacrificing Abjuration (because his cleric spells mostly cover it) and Necromancy (because he's not Evil) to do it.

This, for strange mystical reasons, gives him unusually good reactions to sudden surprises. Despite being flat-footed, despite not having expected this in the slightest a mere fraction of a second ago, he has enough reaction to take a five-foot step onto what remains of his defender, and yell "Emergency!" at the top of his lungs.

In response to a command word, the shrunken metal cylinder hidden inside his unfashionable head-piece returns to its original size, pulverising the thin veneer of ordinary cloth it was hiding inside of.

Robaldo has to rapidly duck to get out of its way, as it expands to 4 feet across and 8 feet tall, from its previous reasonable 3 inches across and 6 inches tall.

As the metal contraption magically manifests above him, Robaldo grabs his expensive magic shield off of where his minion dropped it and darts his hand back in to avoid the crushing weight.

You can't have Shrink Item-ed that.
You can only shrink an object up to 2 cu. ft./level.

It's collapsible: Vertically, it's several layers that squeeze down together, and horizontally it folds in quarters. It's held open by tiny metal pins, or I suppose large metal pins when it's not shrunken.

I collapsed it into a smaller, denser configuration, then shrunk it, then carefully reset it using tweezers.

Nevermind, carry on then.

As it falls into place she feels her divinations cut out, as if blocked.

She'll order her wolves to rush in, as she does the same. She'll get there first and stick her sword under the edge, using leverage to lift against the weight. The fastest of her summons will howl in hunger and delight as they slip under the opening to bite and tear at his supple flesh, he'll scream in regret as his blood is spilt upon the cobblestones.

With vampiric strength she flips the metal shell up and shoves it over the edge and onto its side. On the floor is a pile of loose earth the size of a Mud Buddy. The ceramic pot has shattered against the ground and raw kerosine has spilled out into a puddle, unlit.

There's nothing else inside.

On the roof of the cylinder, now resting on the ground, she sees an open trap door. He wants her to think he's cast Fly, or Invisibility, or turned into a bird or something and is making a break for it.

She would've seen through it immediately if he really had.

Estrella is not an Asmodean in the sense that she has not been raised on Asmodean propaganda, has no intention of ever going to Hell, does not consider herself as having any reason to obey Asmodeus, does not consider herself to be Asmodeus's slave. She is Stristyko's slave, she serves Stristyko.

Estrella is an Asmodean in almost every other sense.

She has been given an order from her master, to either track the target discreetly and report back or kill him quickly if an easy opportunity arises. If she quits now she has unambiguously failed that order.

She has named the target as her quarry, has already decided to kill him.
What right does some human idiot have to decide otherwise, to stop her in her intention?

She would have seen him Flying, even if he was invisible.
She's done her homework, with Stristyko helping when she got confused.
He can't cast Teleportation or Plane Shift or anything that powerful.
He would've had to use a scroll, and really she doubts it.
He could've jumped into a Bag of Holding and then used Anywhere but Here, but she doesn't see a Bag of Holding left behind and also that's an Insane Person spell.
Stristyko said he's 95% sure that Robaldo is only pretending to be insane.

The only realistic option is that he had Dimension Door as a failsafe escape route, probably after being traumatised by being caught with no escape spells before, and that he cast it from inside the box where he knew she wouldn't see it happen, and opened the trapdoor as he did so as some attempt to trick her like he thinks she's the idiot here.

Estrella's Pride is at stake here: as a predator, as an assassin, as her master's slave, as her master's most valuable possession.
Estrella is going to kill him.

Stristyko is the kind of lich whom, if asked 'how many scrolls of this obscure 4th circle ranger/inquisitor spell called Find Quarry that help you find your quarry and cost 1000 gp each should you give to your assassin before her big important mission?' will spend an entire 600 consecutive rounds thinking and then answer 'four'.

This is part of why he lost 20k gp in defensive investments just because a chess piece suddenly turned into a holy symbol.

He will then explain to Estrella that these are very expensive, that it is best to save them for future missions, that if she's finding herself needed all of them it means it's probably a ruse, it's not the situation Stristyko was anticipating, and she should just teleport out and report back while she's still alive.

What he anticipates, he says, is that she will use one scroll on arrival to find the target, go there and follow his tracks normally to find him, and if a suitable opportunity exists lay an ambush and kill him before coming home.

It is not out of distribution, he'll explain, that the clever wizard of a clever god might do something clever, and he anticipates that clever thing will amount to enough to survive her opening ambush and Dimension Door away.

It is within Stristyko's ordinary intelligence to anticipate this also, and Estrella should use the second scroll of Find Quarry to locate him quickly only if she cannot otherwise locate him immediately by her ordinary senses.

She should then run him down very fast and hit him a second time before the city's defenders can mount any kind of response and before he can get to proper safety.

If they are mounting a response, she should just immediately leave. Morgethai lives in Almas. It is not a good place to take risks, and Estrella is worth far more to him than the mission ever could be.

He will reinforce the importance of this point with headpats, if he has to.

She casts a second Find Quarry.

He's moved himself diagonally about 600 ft, to avoid any additional ambushes that might have been on his previous path, and is running as fast as he can which in Estrella's opinion is not fast at all directly towards the university.

She knows the Lay of the Land.
She knows how fast he can move.

She'll draw the third line of the triangle, the earliest point that she can intercept him, it's still before the campus itself begins. She'll sprint along the shortest possible path, and her wolves will run along behind her.

Dimension Door.

And he'll take off running in a straight line towards his university and his wizard friends and Morgethai and safety.

What the fuck was that? Have they finally come for him? Is this how he dies?
He's not exactly a sprinter, and it's still 2 miles away.

There are other people, civilians. It's not like it's the middle of the night.
His cached answer, what he prepared to do, is that he should keep quiet instead of yelling as he runs.

They're only after him probably, and he doesn't want to get other people hurt, and he's legitimately safer not being found, and it'll attract attention, they might not find him quickly if he isn't starting a commotion.

That wasn't exactly what he'd been anticipating, though. He'd expected a Malediction spell to be the only warning he should activate his hat, or else to be Dominated and shoved into a sack, or incinerated by spells or-

Did he hear wolves?

Right before he dimdoored out, there had been a sword forced under the hat, and he had heard... howling?

Why would there be wolves? Cheliax doesn't use wolves for anything, dogs maybe. There aren't any devils that sound like that.

It's the middle of the city, how could there be wolves inside the walls?
Did someone teleport them in? Sneak them in under cover of darkness? Are they summoned? Druids might do that, he thinks.

When did Robaldo do anything that would piss off druids?

Is this about that one time with all the spiders?

Robaldo stops mid-sprint and casts his second wizard personal safety spell, Nondetection.

Then he takes a ninety degree turn and sprints down an alleyway.

If it's not Cheliax he shouldn't expect Almas University to be his safest option, that's what they're expecting him to think. He should do literally anything else.

Estrella reaches ahead of where he should be by now, and starts backtracking along the path she expects he would have followed. It's only a minute before she finds his tracks, darting off towards the side.

She and her wolves are sprinting down the street in the half-light of dusk, visibly monstrous. People are seeing them.

It's still worth it for a chance to finish him off, Stristyko will forgive her probably.
It's still at least a minute before a competent response.

The tracks lead to a townhouse.

It's a private dwelling. She can't enter.

She's starting to realise how much she's screwed up.

She'll smash a window on the ground floor, she'll smash down the door.

When her wolves get here they can run in and bring him down, probably.

Are there any humans around outside? She tries to detect a human.

The emaciated child is lying in an alleyway off of the main street.

He is cold, he is confused.

Some of the locals give him food, or money, or offer him warmth, or shout at him or try to make him go away.

He has never passed a Will save in his entire life and is not about to start now.

Dominate.

She'll give him a dagger. Not her good enchanted sword, just a regular blade.

"Go in that house over there and kill the man with red hair in pink and blue robes."

He doesn't speak Avistani.

He's been getting by on gestures, mostly.