deercountry | The Building Blocks and other assorted tales!

Luz was keeping time with Saeri, already pulling out her book to write down the things she was saying. It was no accident that Luz was seeking guidance and advice from any witch she could in Trench, but it was particularly helpful that her friend seemed to use magic in the same way that she did.

"I think I get what you're saying! My trip is probably with coming up with the concept of a shield to begin with. But maybe if I could come up with a glyph that can act as the shield and then gather all my energy behind that, I can slowly work up to making it absorb and repel magis?"

"Glyphs don't seem that different from runes. They work because someone once made them mean something. Like how written words are words because we accept that they stand for something when written down."

She turns her notepad around to show her Luz some of the runes she's written down in different formations together, many of them the same ones that were on the stones she gifted Luz.

"They all have meaning because we put meaning into them. So you just have to put meaning into whatever glyph you want to me shield. Maybe think of symbols that are already related?"

"As far as I know, the glyphs are supposed to be IN the nature of the Isles themselves, but how that came to be and how other people found out about them I still don't know. That's the whole thing about going from one world to another: you find there's all these mysteries that you don't know yet."

She desperately wished she knew more about her glyphs, and obviously someone from her world here, but she knew that was not going to happen anytime soon. She did note the runes with interest though.

"I never thought of that. So you're saying that I could, in effect, make my own glyph? I never even considered doing something like that. Have you made up glyphs here?"

"Runes, but yeah. Did it for Ruby and Glitch by mixing ones that already exist to represent something and adding a bit more to them. Something to make it represent them, too. We call it giving it a bit of flare."

She then unbuttons the top three buttons on her shirt and vest. It's cold but thankfully not as bad as it was back in December. And she pulls the shirt aside a bit to show the tattoo on over her left breast.

"Kind of like this but theirs were more detailed. This is an old one I did years ago."

"Oh, wow, no way!"

Luz couldn't help but be utterly fascinated by this way of discerning magic. It had been some time since she actually had a teacher that had alternate ways of teaching, and this definitely was making her think about how she now wanted to approach her method.

Granted, when she unbuttoned her shirt and vest Luz blushed like a pilgrim, but once she saw the runes she couldn't help staring at it's application.

"WHOA! What does that one do?"

"It's a health rune. Keeps things running and boosts my immune system."

She doesn't specify what those "things" are, but the top of a scar going down between her breasts should be fairly noticeable with her shirt partially open. A surgical scar. After a moment she pulls her shirt back together and starts rebuttoning it.

"So if you want to make a new glyph, maybe you need to think about what old glyphs are related and try to build a new one off of it. Kind of like making a new word based on an old one."

"Oh. I get it."

Luz said this after noticing the scar. Now granted she didn't want to stare for obvious reasons, but a scar was something you couldn't avoid. She couldn't imagine what would happen if Saeri didn't the rune there, and really, why else would it be there?

"I've already started to do a little of that, actually, at least as far as the glyphs I know. I can make myself invisible, to start!"

She just needed to perfect it so she wouldn't have to rely so much on breathing.

Saeri's eyes widen just a bit when she says that and then lets out an impressed whistle.

"Invisibility, for real? Damn girl, you're doing better than you give yourself credit for. Did you do it as a straight glyph or use an anchor to control it?"

"You think so? Aww, thanks!"

Luz was slightly blushing, but at the question Luz showed her the glyph.

"It was a bit of variation of the glyphs I know, actually! It took some study and basically breaking down ideas of how the glyphs work in conjunction with each other. The cool thing is, glyphs can actually do WAY more once you combine them in the right pattern!"

"Glyphs do sounds a lot like runes, just a different kind," she agrees. "Rune bonding makes them a lot stronger and lets you create different uses from the same one. It took me three years to make my metal-warping one with the right runes and sequences."

She looks over the glyph, taking in its shape and curves. It doesn't mean as much to her, as she has no basis for the glyphs, but it's pretty interesting to look at.

"Nice. Did you put this on a anchor like a stone or charm? Keep you from being the focus on the magic?"

"I find that with glyphs you need to take some of the symbols and break them down and combine to make something new. Now the cool thing about them is that you can also rearrange their application so you can have both magical applications working together! It's a little tricky though."

It was tricky, at least, because she wasn't in the Boiling isles where it would be much easier to pull that kind of thing off. Here it was pretty much experimentation until she got it right.

"Oh, uh, no. The runes act on wherever I draw them and then work when I activate them with the staff. Without it I have to activate them on my own."

The Building Blocks and other assorted tales!

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