The details came in pieces.

A Silvermoon female named Ressa arrived at the Grove boundary three days after Marina's reading of the channels. She had been running for two weeks, stopping only when her body refused to continue, and she came in on her last reserves with the specific emptiness of someone who had decided to reach this place or die trying.

Marina was at the boundary when she crossed it.

She caught Ressa before she went down and held her weight and walked her to the fire and sat with her while Senna assessed the damage. Malnourishment, exhaustion, three partially healed claw marks across her back that had gone...