Slightly out of breath and looking all sort of... ruffled, Tobias skidded back into the classroom. He'd managed to make it to his dormitory and back in only a few minutes, which was impressive even for his standards. Mainly he was worried that someone might take his Gandr, or even just accidentally knock it to the floor or something, and he'd worked too hard on it to see that happen.

In his hand, Toby held a piece of milky quartz that he'd found on the beach once. They lived right near a beach, but it was a shingle beach, so really it was JUST stones, and his grandfather said he'd had quite the eye for finding the quartz. Apparently milky quartz was the most common, but Tobias was proud of himself nonetheless.

Heading back to the front of the room, Tobias looked at the ribbons. He was torn between the scarlet one and the dark blue one, and bit his lip as he tried to decided.

In the end, Toby went for the thin dark blue, shiny ribbon, and went back to his Gandr, which he had already noted was still on the desk where he'd left it. The Hufflepuff prodded it experimentally, and it seemed dry enough, so he picked it up very carefully to check. The intructions said that he needed to use his wand to dry it out, but Tobias didn't know any spells for that, and was sure that THOSE types of spells were certain to be the kind of ones where his wand would decide that a fire would be more fun.

Instead, Tobias blewwwwwwwwwwww on the beeswax coated Gandr just to make extra super duper sure it really was dry, and then set to work in mounting his tiny, treasured piece of milky quartz into the tip. He wasn't supposed to make anymore permanent marks in it, so Tobias used a teeny tiny bit more beeswax for his teeny tiny piece of quartz in order to affix it.

Once that was done, Toby the got the long and thing piece of blue ribbon and wound it all the way down the wand, leaving a significant gap in between each loop and the last one so you could still actually SEE plenty of the Gandr. Then he kind of stopped and looked at it. Tobias COULD hand it in now, but it didn't seem finished. He glanced up to the front of the room.

The red ribbon. He needed it.

Tobias when and grabbed the ribbon that was identical to the one he had just used in every way other than colour, and went back to the Gandr. Then he wrapped it around the wand in the same way, and also re-wrapped the blue ribbon, but so that the strands crossed over each other.

It was a fiddly job, and even more fiddly when he had to neatly tie it so it wouldn't slip off. When he was done, Tobias put a teeny bit of beeswax in the knot of the ribbons just to ensure it would stay tied. If ever need be, the ribbon could always be gradually shimmied off, but it was generally rather tight and secure.

Not bad.