...and there was her offer for a partner!

Derf was SO super sweet! He was always ready to help somebody out and work with them! Plus, Maddie was lucky he forgave her for that poster episode a few years back. She smiled at him and did a little half-skip over to where he was seated. "Thanks!" she said.

He had already figured out the hinge strap? "Whoooa, you must be good at runes!" she said. He'd probably already figured out that she wasn't the best at runes, what with her being a first time Ancient Runes student and all. She had a good idea what the basics were, though, and looking at bind runes was kind of like a puzzle to her. She just had to find the shapes in the midst of everything!

Textbook in hand, she peered at the bind rune on the hinge strap. She compared what she saw in her basic chart of runes to what was on the items before her. "I definitely see Thurisaz," she began, and without touching the item, she traced the straight line and triangular shape of Thurisaz in the air. "It looks like it's just Thurisaz, but if it's supposed to be a bind rune, maybe there's an Isa in there, too."