The Sentinels and never mind how high the cost may grow

she came to him, she attended in silence, and lasher led her along the treeline to a darkened ring that would have been rife with violets had not the locusts came. it had happened naturally -- he had not created it -- but he knew what had, and motioned to it. "what made this?" he asked, looking at his daughter.

nearby he had collected five pebbles, and he gestured to them. "place these at the four positions of the wind around the circle, and its heart."