Round 31

Silra crouches beside exposed ward stones—ancient stone components arranged in deliberate patterns across the ground outside Gravehill's manor house foundation. She traces connections between them with practiced fingers, silver-coated wire glinting faintly in the dim light. Each stone serves different purpose in sequence: some channel energy upward toward the spire visible on the hilltop, others feed into a grid beneath ground level. A few seem designed as… feeding stations? For what? The manor house overhead groans ominously—creaking wood and grinding stone as its mechanisms engage because of course the entire building is...