The new stone circle held through the night and into the next morning, yet none of us trusted the quiet completely.
I stood with Cassian at the edge of the stones just after dawn. "It did not move once. Not even a tremor. That should feel like a win."
He kept his eyes on the dirt. "It does. And it does not. We made the boundary wider. We practiced. But we still do not know why it keeps coming back to this exact place."
I nodded. "That is what kept me awake. The stones help. The practice helps. But the root of it is still a mystery. We need to talk about that with the others."
Footsteps approached. Mira and Thorne walked up together. Mira spoke first. "We felt nothing all night. The circle is solid. But Thorne and I keep asking the same question. Why here? Why our garden?"
Thorne added
