> By sacrificing a small animal and leaving its corpse as an offering to Death, you raise a powerful magical barrier around a place. Left untampered, this ward lasts until the sacrificial offering is nothing but bones, but humans tend to remove them long before that stage. To prevent interference, you may need to find ingenious hiding places for your offerings. The corpse must be fresh when you create the ward—one sleep old or less—but it doesn’t have to be complete; you might like to bite the head and front parts off for a tasty snack before you get to work.