Luna arrived at the hollow an hour after Sera.

Not because she had gotten lost. Marina knew that. Luna did not get lost. She arrived an hour after Sera because she had spent that hour at the Bloodfang boundary stones pressing her palms to the ground and reading the frequency of the territory the way Marina read everything, methodically, layer by layer, forming a complete picture before she moved.

She came down into the hollow and stood at the edge of it and looked at the three ancient trees and the root structure with the specific attention she gave new environments.

Then she looked at Marina.

"The territory remembers you,"...