A soft nicker from her Guard caused Luna to drop her spell and raise her head. The girl—the one they had called Ka-th-rin was on the stairs, and Luna immediately focused on her. She'd already gotten a good sense of Dale's measure—both from her dreamwalking and from Lyra’s testimony during the trial—but the girl was a complete unknown. Like Dale, she had no appreciable magical aura around her, which was unheard of in all the sapient species in Equestria.