He found her in the same area where she had been when he left for the proving ground, not at the same position but within the general territory, the Observer's signature read resolving her location at the edge of comfortable range without requiring the Dragon God's Eye's full extension.
She was not waiting in the stillness of someone marking time. She was engaged with something, her attention directed at a formation he had not noticed on his first pass through this stretch of ground, the ancient sword spirit's examination of it carrying the specific quality of someone cross-referencing what they were seeing against a very large internal database of things they had seen before.
He stopped near her without interrupting.
She acknowledged his presence without looking up.
"What do you find?" he said.
