Hey Mounties! First off, everything is fine here. We’re just homesteading and getting excited that the weather is finally, sloooooowly warming up. Once the ground thaws, we’ll have a lot more to do/explore, what with forests to hike and forage, seeds to plant, and (hopefully) getting a few solar panels installed outside. I wouldn’t risk putting anything on the roofs of this place.
Anyway, I checked in last week and saw Ash’s reply about Marty and realized she might be onto something, so I emailed him as your official middle man to the non-magic world.
He followed up last night with a quick note (he’s on vacation with his family, squeeeeeee) so here’s the relevant part:
“Lauren either delivered those objects to me or had me otherwise “procure” them. She knows she’s got me on a string so had me hotfooting all over New York. What can I say, I have a soft spot for that centuries-old demigod.
She “said” that with the end of magic in the Book of Kings, most of the old leylines had also disappeared or died. She had me plant those “objects of personal and noted power” near those columns to create temporary leylines between the column material’s points of origin and their final forms. Stone hangs onto memory longer than almost anything else, apparently. She then did some mojo which helped her get a better sense of what was happening with magic. From what she could see, many or most of the rules of magic are being rewritten or possibly being realigned with their once “true rules.” And according to what you’re saying, we’re in the new age now, then that’s already happened.
Old rules out, new rules forthcoming. I hope you’re all well. Make me happy to hear that Mounties are still hopping all over Manhattan, physically and virtually.”