To say that Hadleigh was already lost would've been a complete understatement. She was beyond lost with all this talk of the different runes and how they came together to make the healing work. NONE is it made any sense to her.

Even though she was way out of her element here with this stuff she didn't let her confusion show and continued to take detailed notes. Cause notes were good and she'd need them at some point. Plus right now note taking was all Hady could do as there was noway she'd be trying to answer this question. Anything she might have guessed would've been way off and she would've looked like a fool. And being a fool is one thing she wouldn't allow to happen.

So.... He wasn't wrong? AH! Zander couldn't help but smile just a little because Ancient Runes was hard and he was actually sort of kind of getting it now. Sort of? But anyways, once the next question was asked Zander flipped through his book once again just to find the galdrs they were looking for.

Once he found the page, he looked back up at his Professor and also stole tiny glances around the rest of the room. Everyone had already answered that they had to use the galdrs so he wouldn't be repetitive. BUT, he wasn't exactly sure if Botros wanted them to mention what the specific galdrs were. So he stayed quiet about that too. He had his book open though, if that counted for anything?

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Angel listened to the Professor and decided to explain some more, she raised her hand. "Professor the Fehu means wealth and money, which is what everyone needs if they want power." Angel was sure of that, the more money you had the better luck you have.

Angel looked at the Professor again and raised her hand. "Professor, maybe we do some sort of chant?" Angel wasn't sure but she thought that it was so cool if they did.

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Oh so that was meant for healing then?

Well, she could think of a few people that needed it carved into their head. If it never healed them at least it'd get rid of them depending on what you carved with. A win win for her really. Alexa studied the runes while the others gave suggestions as to what they might be able to add to the bracelet to make it more effective but she remained quiet as the others gave their opinions because she was busy going through it all in her head, figuring how they all worked together the way they did to bring healing.

See? Sometimes it wasn't that she spaced out but rather that she was actually considering the topic to be discussed, though it wasn't always easy to tell the difference, like now with her emotionless stare that could pass for one of someone with a blank mind somewhere off in a daydream but NO SIR she was concentrating real good and he should have been proud of her silence.

Remember the days when she used to be disruptive???

Exactly.

The silence was however broken at the Professor's next question. "What Angel said. You just have to chant is all." Unless there was some new super secret method that he'd neglected to share at some point in her earlier life. Looks for you Professor Botros.

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Toby smiled, because Botros had LIKED his answer, and Toby couldn't help but feel more positive upon hearing praise from professors, especially this one. As for the next question, it had already been answered, but the Hufflepuff raised his hand again just to add the other detail.

"The galdrs of the runes, sir." As in, that was what was chanted. If they were doing this, it was great practice; Toby had recently memorised almost all of the galdrs and any practice he good get was golden.

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So, Dagaz could be used. Cool! Adi scribbled down this rune as well as the others that Professor Botros had confirmed. For the next question, he didn't need to ponder too much for an answer.

Hand up, the Hufflepuff responded, "By chanting the galdr of the runes.'' Or definitely some form of a chant if not the galdrs. He was sure of it.

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Soph was pleased that Botros was pleased with Toby's reply, too, and then she got excited because she actually KNEW this next answer. Others were quick to give their answers, but the Ravenclaw raised a hand anyway. She would give VALUABLE INPUT, mhm.

"To activate runes, y'gotta chant the galdr, which is a fancy-shmancy sounding word that means spell... or incantation." Which she hadn't KNOWN for awhile and wondered what a galdr was and why it was called that and WHY it was so special... but being told that it was just a cooler word for incantation made the word a lot less intimidating.

So she explained a little. Just so the younger ones KNEW.

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........................ So Ancient Runes was hard.

No. Really. It was.

Grayson stared down at his notebook and then at the textbook in front of him. MAN. Was he just behind or what? It felt like it. Like he wasn't tuned into this lesson and whatnot. It reminded him all too much of things he didn't want to remember back in Beauxbatons, which caused his neutral facial expression to twist itself into a small scowl.

.................... Whatever. Like he could STRUGGLE. Jeez. What was he, SOFT?

ANYWAYS. "The galdr. Yeah. It makes the runes glow and you feel their magical energy." Like they had with the torches back in the previous year. He'd remembered the way they had to keep on chanting the Kenaz rune -- it HAD been Kenaz, hadn't it? -- just to keep the torches lit as they made their way outside in the freakshow that was the weather. See? If Kenaz came up in his OWLs, he was SURE going to be able to show off his smarts.

What an easy question, too. He liked that.

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Continuing to write notes, Lux was thrilled when there was finally a question being asked that she knew the answer to. They did this every time a rune was activated, so it was pretty easy. Raising her hand, she said, "you need to chant the galdr."

"Good, good. Yes. In order to activate the runes and make their energy and magic flow through, we have to chant an incantation, something like a spell for each rune. You can find it under Galdrs in your textbook. Those spells and incantations are called Galdrs."

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She got one, she got one. Granted, she had to look for the answer in her textbook, but it still counted. AJ was still confused, but she was feeling a teensy bit better about it all now. Amazing how hearing you were right could change your entire mood.

Ohhh, AJ knew this one too. She didn't even have to look into the book to figure that out. Chant, chant, chant. You had to chaaaaant. "Professor, you can't just chant, you have to REALLY mean it. You need to focus AND believe." That was important.

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Caleb still didn't really get the appeal of Runes, but he'd been thinking more about being an Auror lately - since he'd had the dream since he could like, walk and stuff. Maybe runes would actually be helpful in that profession. SO he was trying to focus a bit more on that class, just for future reference. He'd rather be safe than sorry!

He raised his hand to answer the professor's question. "You chant, but you also have to focus. If you're just saying WORDS it doesn't really do much. You have to really have the intent behind it," he explained. Sort of like an unforgivable curse, right?

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"There are...different......uh, galdr chants for each rune..........to go with their, um, answers." HAND GESTURE TO THOSE WHO ANSWERED.

"Exactly! Great answers!" He beamed at all of those, and looked at the younger students to pay attention. "When we chant those Galdrs, just like the regular charms we need to summon a very clear intention, we must have the will to invoke this rune's energy." Yeah? Yeah.

He turned to the box he'd brought from his office and tapped it with his wand to open it. "So, today, we're going to make similar Healing bracelets. I have bronze bracelets over here that we need to carve some runes onto it." He took it in his hands and started walking between the desks to give those bracelets out to everyone. "We need to use the spell Intaglio to carve the runes." Once everyone got their bracelets, he went back to his desk and grabbed his wand in his hand and the bracelet in the other. "Intaglio, pronounced IN-TA-LEO..." He raised his voice for everyone to hear. "... is specifically used to carve those runes. You need to say the incantatio followed by the name of the runes. Look at me for a minute and see how I'm going to do it."

He pointed his wand at the bracelet, focused for a second and started, "Intaglio Swoilo Swoilo Swoilo Swoilo Swoilo..." He stopped. "Keep saying the rune's name until its shape is drawn perfectly. You can practice drawing the rune on your parchment with your quill first if you're not familiar with it."

"If there's no questions you can start carving, exactly the same as those runes on this ancient artifact. Same runes, same order." He dropped his bracelet to his desk.

ooc: - this is a sub-activity, you can do it in 2 posts if you want. :)
- class will resume in 24 hrs.

Would you look at that, they were replicating the healing bracelet. Was there some hidden point in this? Like the term Professor Lafay made them brew their own antidote for when they had that happy!ice-cream problem? Hadn't that been something, especially when the class started considering the ingredients she had them adding. Lithe river water raised eyebrows, always.

Lex took one of the bracelets then drew Airey's wand from her holster. Any day now the Professor would be fed up of her borrowing his wand but it wasn't her fault someone had gone and made off with hers. Wasn't even like people were telling her where to find it after so she was stuck in this fix with a wand that liked her only half the time.

Here's to hoping this was one of those times when the wand would actually cooperate. Alexa pointed to the point at the top centre of the bracelet to start on the first ruin. "Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo...Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo." Going in a clockwise direction, the next rune to be carved Jera and she got right on it. "Intaglio jera jera jera jera...Intaglio jera jera jera..." No practising on her parchment first. She already KNEW what these runes were meant to look like thank you very much. Next in sequence, the other sowilo that she'd need to get carved.

"Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo sowilo...Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo." Admittedly...that one didn't turn out as great as it could have but that was the wand's fault. Her's was perfectly obedient, this one did what it wanted sometimes and she didn't really appreciate that at a time when she had runes to carve. Speaking of runes that needed carving....Uruz would be next. "Intaglio uruz uruz uruz uruz....Intaglio uruz uruz uruz." Annnnnd back to sowilo. "Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo sowilo....Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo."

Ian watched as the professor worked through what they would be doing for a bit. This actually was one of the favorite things he did in this clas, carving runes. Ian did as instructed, observing the professor as he demonstrated with swolio. Ian wanted to make sure that he had the runes copted correctly in his notes so he would get the order correct. Satisfied that he was correct, he began practicing the runes on his parchment, in order.

Time for practicing the runes now. He went up to the front of the room and got his bronze bracelets. He was gonna have to carve runes into these? Well he had done it before. But before he got his wand out he was gonna practice saying the runes first. He checked his notebook first for the runes he would be using for this activity.

He needed to use the runes Sowilo, Uruz and Jera. That seemed simple enough. Then he copied down the incantation used for the chanting. Intaglio it was. He said it like the professor said it, "IN-TA-LEO." Alright he had that down. Now to say it a few more times. "In-ta-leo....In-ta-leo....In-ta-leo....In-ta-leo....In-ta-leo....In-ta-leo...." He was getting the hang of it. Now to put it together. "Intaglio....Intaglio.....Intaglio.....Intaglio... Intaglio." He smiled and was feeling confident. Now to practice those runes. He flipped through his books to find the runes. He found Sowlio. Since he found that first he would practice it.

"Sowilo....Sowilo....Sowilo....Sowilo....Sowilo... Sowilo....Sowilo."

Now onto the next set of runes. He quietly said

"Uruz....Uruz...Uruz.. and...Jera....Jera.....Jera....Jera....Jera..."

It was time to put the casting to the test.

Uh........?

So, when it came to runes and theories involving runes, Gabriel would O every test...but the thing was...Well...

He'd never, technically, carved a rune before......into anything.

Needless to say, Gabe was pretty intimidated...but before the panic attack could fully begin, he took a time out; reminding himself to breathe it out. Logically speaking, how hard could it be? He would be saying a spell, followed by the rune name.....whilst visualizing it. From a technical standpoint, it didn't sound like much work...or that difficult.

Swallowing thickly, he slowly got out his wand and eyed the spell written in his notes. "Integlia." No, that wasn't right. He did some throat clearing. "INTAGLIO."

.......And the motion was just tracing out the rune.....Okay. Gabe was kinda ready to try. NO, no.....he WAS ready. He needed to be more confident.....though, he did not feel the least bit confident.

His cheeks flamed as he began with the first rune: Sowilō .

Activity time!

Adi got one of the bronze bracelets for himself from the old man. "Thanks, Professor.'' He set it one his desk then got his wand. He didn't think he would need to practice drawing the runes first. He would just go straight for the carving.

"Intaglio...Intaglio...Intaglio...'' he muttered for practice. Yep, he had gotten the hang of that fast. Adi pointed his wand at the bracelet's top. "Intaglio Sowilo...Sowilo...Sowilo...Sowilo...Sowilo..." He smiled to himself. One neatly carved Sowilo rune.

Jera was next. "Intaglio Jera...Jera...Jera...Jera...Jera...'' One Jera rune on the left side of the bracelet. The Hufflepuff repeated the step so that there was now a Jera rune carved on the right side as well.

Then he did the same for Sowilo again, carving the rune on both sides of the bracelet just as they were on the blackboard. So far so good.

Making their own runic bracelets? Bring it on!

Grayson grabbed a bronze bracelet for himself and turned it over in his hands. This thing was rather ugly, to say the least. And it reminded him of some sort of ancient artefact you'd find in the hands of an old dude who loved history so much. Really. He wouldn't be seen dead in a bracelet like this but if it was gonna give them healing powers.........

............. WELL.

"Intaglio........ IN-TA-LEO........ IN-TA-LEO....... IN-TA-LEO....." Practice and all. "IN-TA-LEO........ IN-TA-LEO......... INTAGLIO...... INTAGLIO........" And what was the wand movement? Just moving his wand around in the shape of the rune he was trying to carve? Dead easy. Especially since the runes didn't have any curved edges. Thank Merlin for that.

First one? Sowilo. "Intaglio Sowilo...... Sowilo....... Sowilo........ Sowilo......" he called, moving his wand around in the shape of the Sowilo rune, "Sowilo....... Sowilo....... Sowilo....... " This was hard work, you know? And the boy was starting to think that this would NEVER work. How many times had other people managed to say the name of the rune before it was carved into their bracelet?

The fifth year continued chanting and saying the name of the rune until...... THERE! One Sowilo rune neatly carved onto his bracelet. Did he feel proud? YOU BETCHA.

With one side of the bracelet taken care of, Lex moved back to the first rune she'd carved, the one in the dead centre. From here she'd simply go in an anti-clockwise motion to get the runes on the other side then she'd be done this activity. It wasn't very hard, truly. This would make her 6th year of rune carving things done in classes. By now she was almost sure she could do this in her sleep. It was like learning to write, if you did it enough you didn't even notice it anymore.

Starting off with Jera like on the other side, she took aim, squinting just a little. The left was always a bit harder. "Intaglio jera jera jera jera jera....intaglio jera jera jera jera..." With the last strike of her wand made, the rune was now visible against the bronze metal of the bracelet like it's counterparts on the other side. Not too shabby either.

Looking to the board again, she saw that the next rune would be sowilo. It was probably the easiest one to carve of the three for the fact it was three lines and didn't need that much detail and care. "Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo sowilo sowilo...Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo..." THERE, taken care of with far less effort than she'd used with the Jera just now and she could quickly move on to being almost done. Uruz was next in this obvious pattern. Did the pattern and order of runes really matter? She might ask later...

"Intaglio uruz uruz uruz uruz....Intaglio uruz uruz uruz uruz..." Without looking at the board, she could easily deduce that the next rune would be sowilo. All you really had to do was look at the pattern thus far. It didn't lie. The next and last rune she'd be carving was sowilo.

"Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo sowilo sowilo....Intaglio sowilo sowilo sowilo sowilo..."

Oh and lookit that, now she was proper done and waiting. That didn't take too long.

Awesome, it was activity time. Lux seemed to do better with the hands on work when it came to this class than with the more theoretical stuff.

Grabbing a bronze bracelet, she smiled. Jewellery was always nice, and this one would have Runes carved into it which was awesome. She already had a necklace with a protection Rune carved into it. Bay had given her the charm at her birthday party a few hours after he had asked her out, and she had placed it on a chain soon after. She loved it as much as the other necklace he had given her and wore them both every day.

Before jumping right to the carving, she decided that a refresher would be a good idea. "Intaglio... Intaglio... Intaglio..." That was quite easy, so after a few minutes she was ready to begin carving the Runes. Pointing her wand at the bracelet, she focused all her attention on the shape that she wanted to carve into it. "Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo..." Once the Rune had been carved perfectly, she stopped. Now it was time for her to move on to the next Rune.

Practicing drawing the rune with her quill first was probably a good idea, but she just flat didn't feel like doing it. Just because she was able to get a drawing right on paper didn't mean that she would be able to get it done with her wand. AJ just figured that would waste valuable time for her.

She would however practice the incantation first like a good little student. Intaglio. That wasn't such a hard word. "Intaglio... In-tag-lio... Intaglio." After awhile it started to roll off her tongue nicely.

It was time to give it a go. Intaglio Sowilo." Nope. She WAS being clear and everything. At least she thought she was. Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo...Sowilo." Finally after several attempts she had a nice little rune carved on her bracelet. Awesome. One down, and two more to go.

"Intaglio Uruz...Uruz...Uruz...Uruz...'' Adi repeated, now carving the Uruz rune on the left side of the bracelet. "Intaglio Uruz...Uruz...Uruz...Uruz..." Another carving appeared, this time on the right side.

Now to finish off things. "Intaglio Sowlio...Sowilo...Sowilo...Sowilo...Sowilo...'' The Hufflepuff repeated the exact process and chanting and soon after there were Sowilo runes carved on both sides of the bracelet.

Time to put the runes onto the bracelets. He said out loud the runes and knew how to pronounce them. He got his wand from his robes and looked at his notebook and started on the Sowlio rune first. He got his wand out and said the chanting charm first, "Intalio Sowilo.." he casted but nothing came out. He stood there giving his bracelet a quizzical look. He heard the other student pronouncing it and realized he goofed up. He chuckled to himself and redid it.

He got his wand at the ready and said,

"Intaglio Sowilo....Sowilo....Sowilo....Sowilo....Sowilo.... Sowilo....Sowilo...." he saw the rune being carved into his bracelet on the bottom left.

He was pleased with himself. Now onto the second rune Jera. He got his wand out and started with the chanting of Jera.

"Intaglio Jera....Jera....Jera.....Jera.....Jera....Jera...J era...." he saw looking at he saw the rune being carved but not too deep yet. He kept chanting, "Intaglio Jera...Jera....Jera....Jera....Jera....Jera...." and with the wave of his wand and stopped, it looked better than his first one! He was getting the hang of it!

The Gryffindor raised an eyebrow at the sight of the bracelets. He wasn't really sure what they were going to do with them, but normally an explanation always followed so he sat and waited for that. Explanation were good and all, considering this was Ancient Runes aka a subject he never felt completely sure of himself in. But well, then again... What subject did he feel completely sure of himself in? Used to be herbology, but then... Yeah. Nevermind.

See? Totally focused. And also vigorously taking notes. Yep.

... Carving the runes into the-- oh. So that's what the bracelet was for.

Taking a couple more minutes to scribble down the rest, he then looked up to notice that some older students had already gotten started! What was that incantation again? See, this is why he took notes. Heh. Could be Ravenclaw material right here guys. "IN-TA-LEO??" He tried slowly. "IN-TA-LEO..... IN-TA-LEO....? IN-TA-LEO!" Okay wasn't too bad. It actually kind of rolled of the tongue a little? Well, a little.

And as for the next part, "Intaglio Swoilo Swoilo Swoilo Swoilo Swoilo... Swoilo... Swoilo... Swoilo???" WAS IT WORKING? Sort of. The carving was still pretty light though. And Professor Botros said it had to be perfect. So here goes nothing, "Intaglio Swoilo Swoilo Swoilo Swoilo....!" That looked just about right. Right?

Right the gladr.

And they would be carving their own bracelets, the fourth year receiving one from the professor as Botros moved around the room. Benny wasn't to sure his would be any help...to him. At this point he was nervous that he'd not have a chance to be successful with the carving when the drawing itself seemed too much. The boy glancing between the original circle and the ones in his book to compare them too.

He bit the inside of his cheek before figuring to practice the incantation first. Sure he had already used it at least once in a class but he was double-checking his knowledge and ability. His recent issues having set him back in trusting himself at least in this class and others of the more heady type. "Intaglio....Intaglio.....Intaglio.....Intagli o" Then he went back to moving his quill in the shape of the first rune...sowilo before exchanging quill for wand when he chanced he might be ready to at least give it a shot.

"Intaglio Sowilo...Sowilo...Sowilo...Sowilo...Sowilo" It took several shots but eventually it looked sort of like the ruin. Would it pass?

With his first carving done, he looked back over to the board to figure out which was supposed to come next. It looked like a triangle which had to mean.... Uruz? And uh, hopefully that was right. So taking a deep breath, the Gryffindor held the bracelet up with one hand and wand in the other. "Intaglio Uruz...Uruz...Uruz...Uruz... Intaglio Uruz....Uruz...Uruz..." And that one actually looked good!! Granted, it may have been because this one was a much easier shape than Sowilo was. Much more straight forward, you know?

And then it was back to Sowilo again. Maybe he should've practiced the shape before his first go, but after having down the first Sowilo he really saw no need for this time around. "Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo. Intaglio Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo!" And he was starting to get a little more confident in his runic abilities, yet his carving still wasn't 100% perfect. Hopefully it'd be okay though. It still looked like Sowilo.

Which then brought it to the most complicated looking one. Jera. Darn. Again, opting not to practice-- whoops-- he lifted the bracelet once more. Intaglio Jera...Jera....Jera...Jera..Jera" Deep breath. "Intaglio Jera...Jera.....Jera...Jera!!" And right back to Sowilo. "Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo." His Sowilo's were finally starting to look perfected now though, after having done it two other times. Intaglio Jera...Jera....Jera...Jera..Jera" Deep breath. "Intaglio Jera...Jera.....Jera...Jera!!" What was next? Right. You guessed it! Sowilo."Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo." And he was almost done at this point. "Intaglio Uruz...Uruz...Uruz...Uruz... Intaglio Uruz....Uruz...Uruz..."

He held his bracelet up in front of himself just to admire the work thus far, before looking back down at it again with wand held in hand. And the very last one. "Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo. Intaglio Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo!" He repeated this last one a few extra times just for good measure.

One carving done and eight more to go.

It seemed like a lot to Lux, but she supposed it wasn't too bad when the whole thing was composed of a total of three different Runes. The next one that she needed to work on was Uruz. With her wand at the ready, she started working on the next carving. "Intaglio Uruz... Uruz... Uruz... Uruz... Uruz..." She didn't stop until the shape was perfectly etched into the bracelet. Next was another Sowilo. "Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo..." She was getting more and more confident as she worked. It had been a while since she worked on carving Runes into anything, and more practice was always welcome.

The next Rune that she needed to carve was Jera. "Intaglio Jera... Jera... Jera..." After she was finished carving that one she took a deep breath. All the chanting started to get to you after a little while. "Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo..." She was more than half way done and smiled to herself as she moved her wand to the next spot on her bracelet. "Intaglio Jera... Jera... Jera..." Now it was time for her to carve the second last Sowilo, which was nice since there seemed to be a lot of them. "Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo." Another deep breath. "Intaglio Uruz... Uruz... Uruz..." She was on the last Rune now. Yay! "Intaglio Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo... Sowilo..."

Pleased with herself, she waited for the next instructions as she looked at her bracelet. She had done a pretty good job in her opinion.

Tobias looked up as Botros went by his desk, and took one of those bronze bracelets for himself. While the professor went on explaining what they were doing, the fifth year practiced drawing out the three runes in his notes, though he already knew them well enough. Something to keep preoccupied with before starting, right? And still, his foot tapped.

Intaglio, Toby was quite familiar with the spell, had used it plenty of times before, and was fairly confident in his ability with this today. He still noted the spell and everything down in his notes, though, because he always found the repetition in his notes to be very beneficial.

After watching Botros' demonstration, Toby retrieved his wand from the holster Soph had gotten him for Christmas, and started to get to work. Same runes, same order, right. Toby checked the board again, just to make sure he'd copied down what the artifact looked like exactly, and yep. All in order.

Sowilo first then, as it seemed like the most logical place to start. Toby raised his wand, squinted at the bracelet, and started carving.

"Intaglio Sowilo Sowilo-" one line was complete "-Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo-" aaaaand the second. "-Sowilo Sowilo." And there it was, one Sowilo rune carved into the bronze band. Toby briefly considered leaving a space for Uruz and doing the next Sowilo rune now, but quickly decided it would be smarter to carve them all in the order that they appeared, lest he make a mistake and run out of room later or something.

"Intaglio Uruz Uruz Uruz Uruz Uruz..." Over and over he repeated the name of the run, until eventually that was neatly carved beside the first one. Without missing a beat, Toby made the most of this focus on the runes and started to carve the next rune as well.

"Intaglio Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo."

The Hufflepuff paused and leant back for a moment, stretching out his arms in front of him and sort of waggling his fingers because all this sitting still was starting to make him more twitchy and fidgety again. If recent years were anything to go by, Toby knew he'd only have a limited amount of time to finish carving these runes before his fidgeting and distractedness started to effect how steady his hand was (and, by extension, how neatly the runes would be carved). So. Back to business.

"Intaglio Jera Jera Jera Jera..." A pause, because this rune was in two unconnected parts, and Toby needed to momentarily stop carving to get the next bit. "Intaglio Jera Jera Jera Jera."

Yep yep yep, all seemed good here. Toby took a breath and moved the bracelet just a tad so he'd get a better aim at it, before beginning to carve rune number five.

"Intaglio Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo Sowilo..."

THEY WERE RUNE CARVING!!!

Okay, he was totally cool with this. The whole understanding how they worked could come later, but this hands on stuff he could do. "Thanks, Professor," he murmured automatically as he received his bronze bangle bracelet thing.

The first thing he did, was definitely practice drawing on his parchment first, cause he didn't want to stuff up his bracelet. Nope. Once he was confident (because it was a few easy lines, right?) then he took his bracelet and his wand and... gulp.

Here went nothing...

"Intaglio Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo..." he chanted as he focused his attention intently on his bracelet, a clear image of the rune in mind. Slowly, but surely, it formed!!!! HE DID IT!!!... But just to touch it up, "Intaglio Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo."

It was hard, like, the shape of the bracelet and all, BUT, he figured he was doing it right. The next rune in order was.... URUZ! After glancing at his parchment, and the board, and his parchment again... Zeke took to his work once more. "Intaglio Uruz, Uruz, Uruz, Uruz..." the lines were forming, becoming deeper, "Uruz, Uruz." Content with his work, Zeke beamed to himself. Weeeeeeeeeeee! CARVING WAS FUN!

Of course, there were LOTS of Sowilo's, so he had to repeat that process again. This was easy enough, having done it once already. And by the time he was through, he was sure he'd be a complete PRO at carving Sowilo.

"Intaglio Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera," he repeated the incantation as he set to work on the next rune in the long line of runes he still had to carve. The shape was different, but the process was the same, and he felt VERY comfortable with the process at this stage. That being said, Jera was a HARDER shape to draw and so it took him a little more concentration to do it proper.

Sam repeated the incantation "Intaglio" in her mind a few times before beginning her work on the bronze bracelet. She pointed her wand and drew the shape of the rune Sowilo as she said the incantation "Intaglio Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo" until the rune was cast on the bracelet.

Next was the Uruz rune so Sam moved her wand in the shape of the rune and said, "Intaglio Uruz, Uruz, Uruz, Uruz, Uruz, Uruz," until the rune appeared on the bracelet.

She repated the process she had performed for the Sowilo rune until a second Sowlio rune appeared on the bracelet.

Next was Jera so she said, "Intaglio Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera," as she drew the shape of the rune via her wand until the rune adorned the bracelet.

Carve runes? They were going to carve runes into a bracelet for healing. Hady let out a breath and lowered her eyes to the table for several brief seconds. It would be alright really all she had to do was practice the spell and know the shapes. Both weren't exactly hard but she wasn't sure how'd she'd do with it. First things first though.

Accepting the bracelet from the Professor with a quiet 'thanks' she focused her attention on the bracelet in her hand. That was until the Professor began explaining what to do. Grabbing up her quill she copied down each drawing several times until she was sure she knew what each looked like. That done she pulled out her wand as she practiced the spell under her breath. "In-ta-leo...in-ta-leo."

Now that she had both the drawings down and the spell she thought she was ready to get started. Intent and focus. Clearing her mind to only the activity at hand she picked up her bracelet in one hand and the wand in the other. With a glance at her parchment she knew Sowilo was first. Pointing her wand at the bracelet she began with true intent and focus. "Intaglio Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo..." She must have been doing something right so far as she watched the rune began to carve itself into the bracelet. A bit more and she'd be done. "Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo." Done! One down and a zillion more to go.

Zeke was on a roll, he was.... almost half way. That was about as much of a roll as he could be on at this stage, but with his eye on the time, he knew he had to get it done before the next activity.

Consulting his parchment again for the rune order, he noted the next on his bracelet. Sowilo again. Could he say, that Sowilo was starting to get annoying? PLEASE? Cause it was. Nevertheless, he started to carve the rune. "Intaglio Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo." Once the lines formed the shape and he was satisfied, he stopped carving and checked which rune came next.

It was a good thing it was all in a pattern, even if it was repetitive.

"Intaglio Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera." Again his focus was greater with this complex shape, but in the end he succeeded in carving it neatly onto his thin bracelet. Seriously dude, it was SO GOOD that he didn't have poor vision or needed glasses, cause... yeah.

After YET ANOTHER Sowilo, Zeke was 100% certain he never wanted to see the rune again. It even SOUNDED annoying as he chanted it.

Uruz followed, and his runic bracelet was almost complete. Almost! "Intaglio Uruz, Uruz, Uruz, Uruz, Uruz."

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The last rune, which was the same as the first, which was ANNOYING as all hell.... Sowilo. Zeke had mixed emotions. Annoyed he still had to perform it one more time, but relieved that it would be over. "Intaglio Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo."

And there. THERE! He was DONE!

...

Never again with Sowilo. NEVER.

Sam continued her runic jewellery work. She used her wand to draw the shape of the rune 'Sowilo' as she said, "Intaglio Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo," until the rune was embellished onto the bracelet.

Sam then added the rune 'Jera' via the incantation "Intaglio Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera, Jera." Next she added the rune 'Sowilo' followed by "Intaglio Uruz, Uruz, Uruz, Uruz, Uruz."

She was nearly done. Sam took a couple of seconds rest and then added the final rune. "Intaglio Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo, Sowilo."

Finally she had completed the bracelet. She twirled it in her two fingers making sure she had performed the task properly. It seemed like she had.

Jeez, this was long.

Next one? Uruz? Grayson picked up his wand and tried to trace the shape of the rune over and over the place he wanted the rune to appear before saying, "Intaglio Uruz..... Uruz....... Uruz..... Uruz......" Was something appearing? Yeah? No? "Uruz....... Uruz..... Uruz...... Uruz....." A faint, almost triangular shape started appearing as he had chanted the spell and, before long, grew brighter and deeper until.......

........... Oh snap! He had another RUNE on there!

Dead chuffed, he was. Uh huh. Rolling up his sleeves, the boy glanced back over at the board. Sowilo? Sowilo. "Intaglio Sowilo....... Sowilo...... Sowilo...... Sowilo........ Sowilo....." Was it just him or was the rune starting to appear sooner than it had the first time? Was he getting better at this? He liked to think SO.

Once the third rune had been carved into the bracelet, the boy cleared his throat and moved on. No need for an early celebration when there was a bit to go. "Intaglio Jera....... Jera....... Jera...... Jera......" So this one was harder. Was it because of the shape? The fact that there were two sections to this rune? MAN! "Jera..... Jera....... Jera........ Jera....." The chant continued for a bit longer until he was sure that that symbol over there was the Jera one and he wasn't simply imagining things.

And to seal it all off........ "Intaglio Sowilo...... Sowilo......... Sowilo..... Sowilo...... Sowilo......" See, Sowilo was MUCH better. Practice and all. He'd hardly had to chant much of the spell before the rune started appearing on the bracelet. Maybe Sowilo was his rune, even if it was the happy-go-lucky type that said too many positive things for the boy.

Was he done? Please say yes.

........... Oh MAN. Was he only halfway through? ONLY?! "Intaglio Jera........ Jera......... Jera....... Jera......." This one took a long time and he wasn't surprised, frankly. "Jera......... Jera...... Jera..... Jera........ Jera......." THERE! "Intaglio Sowilo..... Sowilo........ Sowilo...... Sowilo......." SEE? Sowilo was easy to cast. Why couldn't the others cooperate just as well? HMMMMM?

"Intaglio Uruz...... Uruz........ Uruz...... Uruz....... Uruz...... Uruz......" His wrist felt like it was going to fall off at this rate. Too much casting and too much carving. But he only had one more to go so Grayson cleared his throat before continuing, "Intaglio Sowilo......... Sowilo..... Sowilo....... Sowilo......."

SWEET! Was he done?

HE WAS DONE. Freaking FINALLY.