The road entered a basin where fog covered the ground without touching the bare stones above it.
Hajin led with one Ring circling his forearm, while the Watcher kept Ash between herself and the mist.
Ferra held a copper needle above the road and tracked its bending. "The fog carries a second resonance, and it follows a living pulse rather than the buried route."
Hajin watched the copper needle bend toward a low ridge. "A person, or something using a person as its direction?"
Ferra checked the readings in her instrument case before replying. "A person with something attached, because the pulse changes whenever the other resonance reaches my needle."
Vella moved beside her with gold light low at her wrists. "Then we approach without calling out, because an attached voice may answer before the wounded person chooses what to say."
