Umm...wait, what?!

At this point, Sophie didn't care about the five extra points. She was so far behind that she'd be really lucky to just catch up at this point. She probably should do some more communicating with her horse, but seeing as she still needed to fix the runes onto the horse's saddle before trying to ride it, she should really just try her luck and move on.

She raised her wand and sort of waved it over the horse. "Mutare Fibula!" she said. The poor horse's wings shrunk down to nothing. Sophie patted the horse. "Sorry about that. Points and all..." Lucky for her, the horse didn't really protest like Botros' horse did.

She then began saying the chant to add the first rune to the saddle. Fehu, because she knew that chant off the top of her head. Lucky her. "Fehu, fehu, fehu...f f f f f f f f f...fu fa fi fe fo...of ef if af uf...f f f f f f f f f," she said. The rune glowed, and Sophie grinned. At least things were coming along and not being all difficult for her.

Now for another. Err... Raidho! Okay then. "Raidho Raidho Raidho... r r r r r r r r r... ru ra ri re ro... rudh radh ridh redh... rodh... (rut rat rit ret rot)... or er ir ar ur... r r r r r r r r r...," she chanted. The second rune glowed. This was just AWESOME. Things were, for once, working out for her in Ancient Runes.

Fehu and Raidho, which was hope for a lucky ride.

"Professor, I'm done," she said. "You riding with us?" Because her partner was Merlin knew where now, and Sophie had a final to finish.