The morning light fell across the stone circle and the ground answered with a single soft pulse before any of us touched it.
I stopped at the edge and called the others. “Cassian. Mira. Thorne. It spoke first today.”
They came quickly. Mira knelt without being asked. “I feel it. Stronger than yesterday but not angry. Like it is waiting for us to sit down and listen properly.”
Thorne placed his hands beside hers. “Same. It is not pushing to open. It is asking us to remember.”
Cassian looked at me. “Then we remember out loud. All of us. No more guessing.”
We sat in a small ring just outside the stones. The girls were still asleep with Kai watching the house. The garden was quiet except for the low pulse under the dirt.
Mira spoke first. “Yesterday it showed me the beginning. The two of
