James did not replace the three skeletons.
That was the decision, and it was the one he would not have made a year ago.
Three summons was two hundred and forty mana, and putting them back into the same hall against the same three throwers would have got him exactly the same result eleven seconds later, and he would have been four hundred and eighty down with nothing to show.
So he used what was already on the floor.
The three destroyed skeletons were lying between the pillars — broken, but lying in the open, in three places between Team Zero and the Barb Hurlers. And a hundred metres of hall with three pillars and three heaps of bone in it was a hundred metres with cover in it.
James did not raise them. He left them exactly where they were and told Finn where they were.
"Third pillar left, there's one at the base of it. Fifth pillar right, there's another. You've got two extra places to be."
