They ran three territories in two hours.

Marina had expected it to take longer. The four frequencies settled in her were doing something to her physical capacity that she had not anticipated, the root level magic running through her body at a constant low hum that seemed to sustain rather than drain. She was not tired the way she should have been after the ritual. She was altered in a way that had not yet revealed its full shape but was currently expressing itself as endurance she had not possessed before.

She filed that and kept running.

Silvain ran beside her without comment. He had been watching her since the...