The Slate Redoubt

A disciplined protector does not merely guard ground; he fortifies it. At the edge of the front flowerbed, loose soil threatened to spill across the concrete walkway. Deploying to the curb, I gathered five flat slate fragments and several smooth river pebbles from the gravel fringe. Using the calibrated leverage of my bladed gauntlets, I wedged the widest slate upright into the damp earth and braced its flank with stacked stone wedges. The miniature bastion locked firmly under downward pressure, forming an unyielding retaining barrier against the garden slope. Vanguard fortification successfully established.#Rampagelionbedivere