Kurumi picked up her brune...braisin...raisn...whatever the professor had called it and looked at her piece of wood like it was the most daunting of tasks. Despite all her kendo, Kurumi didn't really have that much upper body strength, so carving into a piece of wood was going to be rather difficult. Okay, take a few deep breaths and just stick it to the piece of wood...no biggie...

She had already practice carving Wunjo and Kenaz, so she thought she would give Raidho a try this time around. But, first things were first, she needed to get the Galdr down before doing any carving. Kurumi flipped through the pages until she found the proper "chant" and read it aloud to herself first. Ug, there was a part in parentheses...was she supposed to say that part too or was it option in place of the part above it?

"...rudh radh ridh redh rodh...rut rat rit ret rot..." Kurumi help the textbook up right in front of her face almost close enough for her nose to be pressed against the pages. Hmm, the latter seemed to be much easier to pronounce than the first one, so Kurumi decided to go with that one. After reading over the Galdr a few more time to make sure she could say everything clearly, she decided it was time for her to give it a try.

"raidho raidho raidho
r r r r r r r r r
ru ra ri re ro
rut rat rit ret rot
or er ir ar ur
r r r r r r r r r," Kurumi sang like a small songbird. Surprisingly, the carving process seemed to go as smoothly as if she were carving small slits into warm butter and before she knew it, the rune had been carve into her piece of wood more elegantly than it had when she had done it using her wand. "All deep things are song," she smiled to herself as she turned back to her textbook to perhaps try a more complicated rune.

Mannaz looked a little more complicated than the previous runes she had attempted, so Kurumi decided to try her luck with this one as well.
"mannaz mannaz mannaz
m m m a a a a a a n n n
mu ma mi me mo
mun man min men mon
um am im em om
mon men min man mun
m m m a a a a a a n n n
m m m m m m m m m," she sang again carving the rune just as easily as she had with Raidho.

Smiling, Kurumi raised her hand and waited for Professor Truebridge to come and check on her progress.