The basement was as large as the first floor, and at the moment it was emptier than Loretta would have liked. Copper-wrapped shelves lined most of the walls, and a huge table covered with gold took up most of the center of the room. That was one exception to the solid copper used everywhere else.
The table had inlays of various other metals: bronze, copper, and electrum primarily, in nine concentric circles with bars of lead pointing to their centers.
Loretta knew essentially how the various arrangements worked, functioning as specific targets all inside the larger one of the house itself, but she preferred to let her grandmother worry about of that. They worked, and that was her only concern.
A far bigger concern was the dwindling supply of objects on all those shelves. Loretta counted
