Okay, so next was the chant.

Tobias read through the passage he was supposed to read, but he read it in his HEAD first, just to make sure he knew what he was doing. Didn't want to come across a word he couldn't say or stumble over his words just because he wasn't expecting them, right? He wasn't sure if, at the last part, whether he was meant to say the name of the alphabet or not. They were making neutral Gandrs, and the assignment said all the runes. Toby didn't want to do anything wrong so... maybe he should just say all of the runes. Be thorough and all that.

Finding the list of Elder Futhark runes elsewhere in the book and marking his place with his finger so that he could easily flip to that page where he needed to, Tobias stood up straight and held his book in front of him. After clearing his throat, he began speaking.

"So, uhhh... this is to the guardian of, uhh... Hazel...

"Hail to thee, wight of Hazel,
I pray to thee give this branch of your body!
Into it send thy speed,
To it bind the might of the bright runes..."

At this, Tobias took a breath and used to finger that was stuck in the pages to flip back to the page with the runes of Elder Futhark were. It took only a second, and then his eyes snapped to the runes and he said those too.

"Fehu... Uruz... Thurisaz... Ansuz... Raidho... Kenaz... Gebo... Wunjo... Hagalaz... Naudhiz... Isa... Jera... Eihwaz... Perthro... Algiz... Sowilo... Teiwaz... Berkana... Ehwaz... Mannaz... Laguz... Inguz... Dagaz... Othala..."

WHEW.

So the next step was to take the branch, if Toby remembered correctly.