[Celty nods and keeps up the back of the line as requested. In fact she does what might be a better job of it than expected considering how quiet she is. But she keeps a good few kids within arm's reach at all times.
What the kids don't quite notice but Elena might is that whenever any of them that are beyond her reach linger too long or try to wander off a small black tendril of shadow sprouts from the ground and pushes or pulls them back in the right direction, always vanishing before they can see what bumped them.]
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What the kids don't quite notice but Elena might is that whenever any of them that are beyond her reach linger too long or try to wander off a small black tendril of shadow sprouts from the ground and pushes or pulls them back in the right direction, always vanishing before they can see what bumped them.]