Now that Ella had all her pieces cut, she was ready to start making her runes. She glanced over at her text, noting the runes in the Freyr Aett. First one up, Fehu. Ella knew this rune because she had done a homework assignment on it. The symbol looked quite like two branches coming off of a tree. It also could be the horns of a cow. Thinking about it, that made sense considering Fehu meant cattle. Pulling the gouge tool and one of her discs towards her, Ella sat to work. The first year started by gouging a straight line down the center of the disc. Then she gouged two lines coming off of the straigh line and up towards the top right of the disc. The first of these two lines was a little shorter than the second. With that, her first rune was carved. Only 23 to go...

The badger placed her Fehu rune to the side and pulled the next disc towards her, glancing over at her text to figure out what came next. Uruz, this was the rune that represented power, in the physical scense. The rune's symbol kind of looked like a lowercase N, though it was more jagged than the letter. Picking up the gouge tool once more, Ella began to carefully carve into her disc. She carved a line going up the disc, then a slant going doward, and a smaller line connecting to that.

The next rune that was listed in the text was Thurisaz. Ella remembered this rune because the idea of frost giants had frightened her. She could picture them quite clearly in her mind. She also recognized the symbol because it looked like a thorn coming off of a vine. Pulling the next disc towards her, Ella set out to make just that visual. The first year began gouging into the wood, starting with a line down the center of the disc. Then, she made a traingle in the middle of the line, its point facing the right of the disc. This rune wasn't as cleanly marked as the first two but that was only because the small triangle had proved difficult to make with the tool. It would have to do, though.

Ansuz was the next rune to carve and Ella looked into her book to read up on the rune. Oh yeah, Ansuz is the rune of Odin and he was a big deal! He was the most powerful god and the god of wisdom. The symbol itself looked a lot like the letter F, only distorted. Pulling yet another disc forward, Ella began to carve into the willow. The first year started again with a line down the center of the disc, then she made to slanted lines coming off the first, going in the bottom right direction. When she was done, she put down the gouge tool and clenched and unclenched her hand. It was already getting sore and she hadn't even gotten through the first Aett!