Alyssa listened as the Professor instructed them to now carve the Protection rune into the fence. That would be either Algiz and Ihwaz. Alyssa decided that she would first carve out the rune Algiz which looked like a letter Y with a line in the middle of the fork.

Alyssa first concentrated on what the rune Algiz represented and what the rune looked like. Then she pointed her wand at the fence and said, "INTAGLIO....ALGIZ....ALGIZ...ALGIZ" concentrating on the spell as she carved out the rune on the fence. First the letter Y followed by a line in the middle of the fork.

Once she was done. She blew off the dust and cleared the splinters. Then she took out her pen knife again and made a cut on the little finger of her left hand and then began to smear the rune with her blood, while at the same time chanting,"ALGIZ...ALGIZ...ALGIZ.." followed by the gladr to the rune "elhaz elhaz elhaz, z z z z z z z z z, uz az iz ez uz, oz ez iz az uz, z z z z z z z z z, (m m m m m m m m m)" while concentrating on what the Rune represented.

When she was done smearing the blood on the rune, Alyssa inspected the rune to make sure that it was completely smeared with her blood before she stepped back and started working on the second rune.