Kurumi glanced over at Paulie when she caught Professor Looneywood Elwood's quick glance in his direction. Kurumi hadn't seen what all had gone on in Charms, but she seriously hoped that there wasn't about to be a repeat in this lesson even if Paulie summersaulting in the air had been mildly amusing. Shrugging her shoulders, Kurumi placed her wand - still in its turquoise holster - on the table in front of her and then brought her attention back to her parchment as further instructions and explanations were given.

Kurumi waited for the crowd around the stones to die down, which probably meant that some of the good ones would be taken and gone before she got there, but Kurumi didn't mind. If it was meant to be it would be, right? Her violet eyes scanned the list of 13 stones she needed to think about and her mind already began to wander as to how to connect these to herself. That was the whole point of this, right? Making a set that spoke to them and them alone?

The first few options that popped into her head were easy and came from her Japanese roots. Each of the planets listed were associated with a certain day of the week and those days in turn had specific gems that were associated with them. So, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn were easily taken care of. Kurumi couldn't remember off the top of her head which stone was associated with the sun, but she figured she would just look at them and see which one spoke to her. The same would go for the remaining stones.

Once the crowd had parted, Kurumi stood up and approached the still massive collection of stones and was easily able to pick out the predetermined stones. That just left...seven more to pick. Kurumi's violet gaze was instantly drawn to a black stone with something that looked like the rays of the sun bursting from it, so that one was added to the collection for the sun. Earth's was easy as well as the color of texture sort of reminded the Gryffindor of dried moss, so that was added next along with another black stone with dabs of color that reminded her of galaxies swimming in the universe. Pearl just seemed like an obvious choice for water, seeing as pearls came from ocean dwelling creatures, and then a pretty blue stone for air and an amber for fire. Spirit was a tricky one and the Gryffindor was first inclined towards picking a transparent stone, but then she remembered something her father had always told her about eyes being the window to our souls. Kurumi's eyes were violet and she was proud to have the color back thanks in great part to Lewis and she quickly selected a purple stone, one that seemed to match her eyes, and then carried all 13 back to her seat where she laid them out on the table to just look them all.