Brandon sanderson wrote a book about chalklings being wild chalk that could hurt people and the way you defended yourself was by drawing chalk circles although his included geometry. http://brandonsanderson.com/books/the-rithmatist/the-rithmatist/ seems simliar :) sorry I could see a way to reply to your reply.
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