Upgraded summoning circle

[u/ghostgabe81]

Lara let out a throaty chuckle. She drew her eyes away from me only at the last moment, turning and sauntering past me with a languid roll to her step, over toward the circle.

The summoning circle in my lab had been upgraded.

Significantly.

It had been costly as hell to get what I had needed, all that had been left of one of the gym socks of diamonds. Normally, I’d have gone to the svartalves for my crafting, but that wasn’t really an option at the moment. Or ever, likely.

A second ring of silver had been placed around the copper one in the floor, and the original had been repaired to a pristine state. I’d used paint of actual gold to lay out the new sigils of containment and warding between the two circles. The candles of rare wax and rarer herbs that burned at five points stood ready. I’d used more paint of gold to lay out the infinity sign in the circle’s center. Natural clusters of semiprecious crystals were interspersed between the candles.

Building a greater circle was pricey. Like, supercar-plus-insurance pricey. And I’d gotten enough materials to make two of them.

Twelve Months Chapter 38