Originally Posted by Anna Banana

As the Headmistress began circling the horseshoe-shaped room, Maddie fumbled about with her parchment and quill. There were notes on the board, and she assumed those notes were meant to be on her parchment. She didn't look up, except to read the chalk-written notes on the board, for at least five minutes.

When the sheets rose from the tables, the third year leeeeeeeaned forward a little in anticipation and surveyed the objects before her. What in the world were all five of them? This class was so confusing! The only two things in this entire room that she was familiar with were sheets and people. She had a feeling neither would help her make a good grade. Her eyebrows rose when she discovered that some of the staff members had gone back to retrieve more treasure! Maddie was still kicking herself for not joining Creature Companions!

"WHOOOOA," she said, upon seeing the bind runes. She couldn't help the excitement. Ancient Runes was suddenly a lot more cool! Maddie bounded out of her seat, upon the word go, and began surveying the items. "HEADMISTRESSSS!" she exclaimed. "Will you be my partner?" It was worth a chance, right?

The brooch's bind rune looked super hard, so Maddie looked at it but definitely didn't choose it. The hinge strap's bind rune looked easy! There was the first of her two choices! Both the arm ring and some other object she didn't know the name of looked hard, too. In the end, Maddie decided that her two objects were going to be the hinge strap and the pendant! "Anybody want to work on the hinge strap and pendant with me?" she asked.