There were no available staff today except the actual cooks, as everyone was busy preparing an evening meal for fifty times their normal population, but there was still a huge pot of stew on and the usual breakfast staples, pancakes and monster bacon.
Wolfe loaded a cart with food and brought it back to the table, where the Witches were discussing the rest of the tasks to be finished this morning while they fed mana to Khalifa, who was leading the spell to adjust the city boundary.
Wolfe barely noticed that he was eating until his plate came up empty when he went for more bacon. But, by the time that he was finished eating, he had a decent grasp on how the barrier spell was going to need to be cast. He just wasn't sure that he had the power to cast it alone. With the Mana Gathering Array, he could probably activate it if given a full day, but even a small lapse in focus while he was gathering the mana would make him start all over.
