Whooooooa. This was pretty cool! Brent had never thought of Ancient Runes as being anything remotely close to cool, but now that he was starting to see some connections, he thought he might like it. A little bit. Maybe. We'll see...

He listened to the discussion on tattoos and slowly began forming an opinion. Also, he had chosen a rune of protection, hadn't he? The professor had said he was surprised nobody had chosen a rune of protection, but Brent thought the one he'd chosen related to protection, too. Or not. He wasn't the best Runes student.

So onto those tattoos. Brent raised his hand. "I started to say skin, but that seems really permanent to me, or at least permanent until you can find a way to get it off," he said. "With wood, though, you can get rid of it if need be. Let's just say you ended up getting a rune on your skin and then you decide it was the wrong course of action. I don't know...maybe it's some curse or something. You're kind of stuck with it on your skin, but on a piece of wood, can't you just get rid of the wood?" Or was there some sort of weird connection between the carver and the wood at that point?