He had walked this ground before.
East from Kael's Seat: the route he had taken twice already this year, the ancient stage country giving way to highland terrain and then to the bedrock where the second Source Point lived in the cliff face. He knew the distance, the terrain changes, the quality of the substrate at each stage. He had walked it west and east and west again.
But he hadn't walked it with the source active.
That was different.
