So far Fern had not been enjoying this class at all. Even the fact that they had the professor on their team could not make up for the presence of Kace, Toby, and worst of all, CUTHBERT.

Fern wanted to be on the seventh year's team with Alec and other mature NICE people.

Then Lux volunteered to carve the Hagalaz. For the first time in the entire lesson, the 12-year-old smiled. "You got this Lux!" she cheered, then leaned over to whisper to Professor Botros, "That's my dorm-mate."

Yeah. Fern was rooming with an Ancient Runes genius.

Ladle that in your potions vial and drink it, Cuthbert!

...Right. What were they doing again? Oh yeah! "hagalaz haglagaz hagalazlazga h h h h h h h h h hu ha hee hee hi.