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hermionesclone 
West wasn't great at the divinatory side? Or the interpreting meanings part? Alec smiled a little before saying, "I'm... not exactly the smartest or the best but I don't think I'm that bad at that part. I'll help you. Teamwork!" You know, if the Slytherin was worried about doing that part himself or messing up or anything. They did have to work together for this, after all. And he had actually sort of done something close to these spreads before so this one wasn't going to be too bad, right? All they needed were the runes.
And speaking of runes... SQUINT.
... Nope. He saw nothing.
Frowning slightly, the boy continued looking around, taking a couple of steps here and there to get a better view. But all he could see was the sky and nothing out of the ordinary up there either. This didn't look like a good sign. And if thy did have to create these stones, the plaque was pretty much the main stone they could have used. Unless there were more lying around. Shrugging, the boy started walking around towards the other side of the arena, his eyes searching for good enough material.
Oh? "That seems likely," he said, agreeing with the fifth year. The sound of the use of the ferula spell didn't sound bad to him, not at all, but what made him feel slightly weird about this whole process was the idea that this wasn't simple Transfiguration. They were essentially conjuring something out of thin air and this type of magic seemed quite advanced. He smiled, though, and nodded along to West's suggestion. "Using stone from the plaque would be greedy as well, yeah, but conjuring won't be, I don't think." Even if the plaque did have the most amount of stone there. Apart from the walls.
But his opinion? "I think conjuring would be the best option. I mean... we can't exactly harden mud... dirt and throw that across the runic spread," Mudfight. Sounded messy! "If we do get to use ferula... we can decide on the type of wooden rod to conjure, right? And..." He paused. There were certain types of wood that you could use for this that was likely to link to the well of Wyrd. Or... did it just not matter? He shook his head before continuing, "If we can find clay, it'd be a great idea to use that. If not... wood might be the best choice. It's the most commonly used material for runic magic, right? Meaning... meaning that it'd probably be really good and useful for... for the spread purposes..." He wasn't confusing West, was he?
"Teamwork definitely." West was glad for it. It'd be a lot more intimidating having to do it all on your own after all, and if Alec could swing all that stuff, that interpret-y divinatory stuff, then it would work out just fine.
West returned to the plaque and examined it closely, running his fingers over the words. It just seemed.... something. Something he was missing. It just seemed like a really time consuming solution. He was nodding at everything Alec said though, and then he spoke out loud.
"Spread your wyrd on the heath.." The ground, that was the ground,
"draw your stones not with greed..." West examined the circles he'd drawn to show the spread and something twigged in his head.
".... what if, instead of conjuring them... we just draw them in the dirt? All of them? And if we have to select some, we can just... I don't know, close our eyes and pick randomly or something, and then whatever we pick, we could put into the wyrd positions if we need to? Then if that doesn't work, we try making the runes whole?" It'd be faster at least. They could still invoke them too...
"We narrowed down the other options: summoning didn't work, and I didn't find anything when I looked around, it makes sense to make sure literally drawing them doesn't work too." And the third line had said to 'take heed' so maybe it was encouraging the literal.