All the Tells

“I’d say it wasn’t the good stuff, but you know all my tells." She smiled, and offered up a piece of bacon. "Even fairy won’t eat spelt. And besides with the amount of wards on this camper? Nothing, and I mean nothing that side of the veil is sneaking in.”

Wards were the hunters first line of defense, so early on they'd studied and memorized plenty of them. Unlike sigils, which were drawn symbols, wards were actions, energy fields which offered protection against most things malevolent. There was, unfortunately no ward for people with ill intent, which is why Mathias sometimes rigged the trailer in what Cyd called "Home Alone-isms" They'd managed to survive for nearly a quarter of a century, so clearly something they were doing was working.