 Long post. Mentions of everyone, and moving the lesson along near the end. Bathes in Maple Syrup | Dancing Lobster | Mrs. Charlie Weasley | Seneca's Beard | That's So Fetch
The woman was back to making her way around the room moments after announcing that everyone was now on a time crunch. In all honesty, she wasn't a big fan of rushing students in their learning, but they only had so much time cut out for Ancient Runes today.
When Stasya came into her line of vision, Regina then realized that the second year was being rather quiet today. Even though that were the case, she knew that the girl understood what was going on, solely based on the determination that the girl had showed last year. The girl's carving of Algiz on the metal proved her right. The carefulness she was editing while casting was very pleasing. "Nicely done, Miss Dalgaard-Volkova. You're ready for the galdr now."
Speaking of galdrs, she was starting to hear a lot of runic song chanting going on right now. Henrietta, who had come a long way, managed to invoke her rune on the first try. This earned the prefect a genuine look of approval and a nod of her head before she continued onward to observe the progress of the others.
Dorian, Vivian, Skylar, Jessa, Ronan, and Ava, the headmistress mentally noted, needed to chant the galdr multiple times in order for their carved rune to strongly glow. A bright smile was directed at each of them, happy and proud of them for their accomplishment. Invoking runes wasn't exactly the easiest task, and it was not a problem that they weren't able to get the rune to glow purple right away. All that mattered was that they were successful in the end, which they fortunately were.
And then her eyes fell upon both Derfael and Zoryn. ... Why did it always have to be those two?
"Breathe, Mr. Ashburry-Hawthorne. Slowly breathe in through your nostrils and then exhale. Everything is alright," she told him. Had that banging startled him? The woman reassuringly placed a hand on his shoulder and then examined his carving. "Hmm. Let's level out that carving by concentrating just on the rune. I know you can do it."
As for Zoryn's carving of -- was that supposed to be Algiz? Had she even been watching what she was doing? Merlin... "Miss Spinnet, I don't want to be the giver of bad news, but your galdr isn't going to work until your carving is complete and done well. Let's work on fixing that up, yes? It is okay if the lines on your suit are thicker than the ones on mine." As long as it actually looked like Algiz, then all would be well.
The headmistress then made her way back at the front of the room. Glancing at the students and the purple glow on their shields, she then faced her suit of armour and started to put the different pieces on. "Alright, everyone! Once your rune is glowing purple, go ahead and put on your suit. They are more likely than not a bit too big for you, but everyone's armour has been charmed to shrink appropriately to your individual sizes." Like clockwork her armour then began fitting to her body. While that bit of magic occurred, a puff of black smoke snuck its way underneath the crack of the side door in the back of the room...
Regina, obviously not at all worried about or phased by that sight, gave everyone a minute or two to climb into their armour. She would continue once they were all suited up and the metallic clanking ceased.
"Now before we dive into the main portion of today's lesson, I have one more question that I'd like for all of you to answer. At the beginning of class, we touched on the key purpose of Algiz: protection, both physical and spiritual. What is one scenario you think using this particular rune would come in handy? How would you use it?" This was your time to shine, Zoryn.
OOC: Moving the lesson along a few hours early because this girl has RL lesson prep to do before hitting the hay. *_______* But here is our final question before we move on to the main part of the lesson. YAY!
If you want to post your character wrapping up their carving ad chanting the galdr, feel free to do so if they haven't finished. Otherwise, the focal point of this component of the lesson will be centred on 1) putting on the suit of armour and 2) responding to the open-ended question that Regina asked. Feel free to think outside of the box for that question -- I am looking forward to seeing some unique ideas coming from your character! The lesson will continue in roughly 24 hours.
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