Mia was definitely having a hard time understanding the Professor but she raised her hand in the air anyway. She was pretty sure that she got the gist of his question. "You traveled many miles in your quest for wisdom. You even sacrificed your eye for such wisdom. But it wasn't until you got caught on a leafless tree and hung between heaven and earth for nine days and nine nights. It was during this time that your inner being grew clearer and more luminuous that finally found the symbols of life's noblest values and called them runes."