She pointed to three specific runes along the outer ring.
Ronan listened.
"A luck ritual, according to what I remember of my parents' technique, needs the mana output to taper at specific points along the circle rather than flow evenly, or the working overloads at the convergence instead of settling into them." Aura's finger followed the line she'd indicated. "You copied the shape of the circle perfectly. You didn't know to vary the mana density while drawing it, because nothing about the visual pattern would have told you that."
Ronan absorbed the information without frustration. It wasn't a failure worth dwelling on. He simply needed to learn from it.
"I see. When drawing the circle, I applied constant mana throughout the entire drawing process." He thought to himself. "Can you fix it, or do we need to start over?"
