I turned and quickly knelt back down again, adjusting the position of a candle that didn't need to be adjusted so that I could pretend that was what I meant to do all along.
"We should create the salt circle now," I said, my voice a little too rough.
To my surprise, Landon just nodded without comment, and we each took one of the big bags of rock salt that had been sitting off to the side and headed closer to the territory boundary.
It was a beautiful night.
The rain was still holding off, though the air was getting damper and chillier by the hour. I hoped it would keep holding off until we were done with the salt; dissolved salt circles were a fucking bitch.
They could still hold power temporarily, but the amount of magic that needed to be fed into them increased exponentially the soggier they got.
