After that, Amanita worked feverishly, her horn glowing all the while. She sketched out a circle in the snow with one of the yew sticks and burned herbs. She carved runes into four more sticks, dipped them into the raven eye jelly, and put one at each cardinal direction of the circle. She sketched something out on a strip of parchment and wrapped it around Bitterroot’s leg. Finally, she spat into the circle and said to Bitterroot, “Get in and lie on your back.”