It wasn’t that I felt strengthened or energized in any way: it was with a numb, mechanical mind that I worked for the next several hours. Side by side, and then layer after layer I stacked the stones. I made sure to fill the holes and gaps with smaller rocks and some mud. In the morning, the sun would shine down all over the clearing by the lake’s edge and harden the mud. It wouldn’t quite bake it the way it ought to be, but it would have to do. The important thing was the heaviness and sturdiness of the base of the enclosure, and the immense slabs that Ares managed to unearth were exactly what I needed.
Especially when I found out that he was capable of splitting too-large slabs with his bare hands. I had been pondering over an uneven spot in the rock wall I had made for sever
