Cambious stumbled up the stairs about an hour later, looking disheveled and like the sleep had done absolutely no good. He did smile, seeing me sitting at the table with Merry, our dirty dishes pushed to the side as we worked on refreshing my skills with my set of ward stones.
“There"s still some breakfast on the stove,” Merry told him as I murmured the incantation she"d been teaching me, bringing the stones to life. “Good, good, now move them slowly.”
I kept my focus on my hands, slowly separating the six piles of stones until they formed a circle around my coffee cup. The air between the stones shimmered a faint green and within the stones, my coffee cup disappeared.
Cambious ambled over, rubbing at his eyes. “Did you just teach her ekleípo?”
ekleípoMerry was just about bursting with
