And yet they hardly mobilize themselves or make a play for it, despite their wanting the other nations to not interfere.

( leaning back a touch, wanda glances up at the canopy of frozen leaves above them. light streams through when the breeze manages to push the heavy branches just so. )

—you'd think they would have tried to get closer far before we ever arrived here.

( a pause, as she glances back down, starts to see movement of the adults closer to the area where the actual rite is going to take place. )

Maybe it's something about this portion of the land.