"I don't see how a handful of salt is going to.." But when the door rattled, Bones found his way out of the argument. Alright. Salt it was.

The good doctor kept an eye on the line of salt, all in all, it wasn't the worst sort of thing he'd ever had to do. Never mind that the sound of snarling, invisible death beasts was just about at his ear. Leonard McCoy had a pretty decent imagination too, he couldn't actually see the mongrels, but he pictured them well enough.

The hot dog breath of them would have been enough to send him running again, if he had anywhere else to go.