Alright here she was. The path Araina treaded wasn't actually the best one, if she was sure of one thing. It wasn't out of her knowledge that the academy clearly knew what was in here, or rather were also like them in knowledge, not aware of what it was. Though choosing the latter, since the academy had witches who could do as much as read the entire length of the forest without doing as little as stepping a foot into this land.
That's with the exception of Mrs Juvenile who brought them here, if there was one thing Araina was sure of was the woman's gift was good at interpreting nature, maybe not a hundred percent certain, but at least that explains why her presence was needed halfway through the expenditure all of which is a theory.