They reached the eastern territories in three days.

The journey was different from the first time Marina had made it. Then she had traveled with Silvain and Lyra and Sable and the specific focused urgency of someone going to open an archive under time pressure. Now she traveled with her daughters and the urgency was replaced by something that had no clean name, the quality of moving toward something rather than toward a deadline.

Sera ran point for the first two hours on the second day.

Not because anyone asked her to. She simply moved to the front of the group and started reading the trail the way Marina read...