Hellsborough Exposed

Tom Calver, out among the settlements past the treeline, was learning which ground to keep off, and the local woman Cath was his teacher: "Don't read it," Cath said. "You know not to by now." "I know not to," said Tom. "They're not a ring. The ring just sits and goes again. This is one of them moving — you don't get many. The dead-still on a mover runs out further than the sitting ones. Twenty foot off the line of it, near enough, before the frost takes it back. You learn the distance so you know how far back is back."