He ran his fingers along one of the fracture edges. "This is arcane stress-fracturing, and you can see the resonance scoring on the stone."
"Whatever was used on this had a lot of force."
Elizabeth slowly folded the map. "The survey was done eighteen months ago, and there have been no reports of anything happening in this corridor."
She looked up at the trees above the ridge and then back down at the debris field. "That means it wasn't reported."
"Bandit activity?" Apollo said as he came up behind them. "We did get attacked earlier, and that cost us our carriages."
Iris said from the left, "Bandits don't usually do precise demolition work." Her voice was flat and calm, and she had already moved a little away from the main group toward the trees, scanning the top of the ridge.
"This was on purpose. Someone wanted this road closed."
[Foresight active. No immediate hostile presence within forty-meter radius. Passive.]
