“Those were nifty,” I said. “Looked like some variation on wards?”
He grinned and nodded. “Nice eye. Instead of creating eight points around a specific piece of land, they create a field between eight points within the metal frame, with the stone, albeit much smaller ones than normal, embedded directly into the frame. Then it just takes one of us to bring as many as fifteen online.”
“Kelsha got twenty up but can’t maintain them. Which means we can’t deploy them on a large scale, because we don’t have that many magic workers,” Róisín added. “At least not ones that can work wards.”
By the time we’d been on the road for an hour or so, my butt was numb and I shifted my weight, trying to get feeling back. I was startled when I felt Daria take my hand.
“These are looking better,” she said, h
