"Yeah, and unfortunately we don't have time to work out what's going on with your spells and the shard if we're going to make that choosing ceremony thing," Cassie said. "Maybe it's something about the shard -- after all, if you could track it with magic, you wouldn't need the brand, right?"

She looked around at their mismatched clothes. "We should split up and arrive separately. Except you two--" she pointed at Raph and Nico. "--You're both from Candor, so you can stick close to each other."

And if anything went sideways, Raph could hold people off until Nico got her magic wand back out of her body and into the fight.