Stone Circle do no harm

The male shifted uncomfortably as he saw the effect his words had on the girl. Irritation flared up deep in his gut - in Murdock's opinion, there were few things more terrible than a flinching woman - but he showed no outward signs of it. "Come on, now," he said reprovingly, turning back to the cache and scraping some soiled dirt out of the entrance. "Didn't mean anything by it."

He turned and carefully picked up a rock from the pile beside him. Moving gently so that he did not hurt his teeth, he placed it at the entrance of the cache and then nudged it deeper with his nose, stopping when it hit a dip and rolled toward the bottom. "Gotta line it with rocks," he said to the girl. "Drains better, that way."