Wait!...Ella and Alec were both agreeing with him? Awesome! At least he now knew that whatever remaining good brain cells he had were still working fine. He watched as Ella started working on the second ward, carving out the opposing rune for Laguz which had been identified as the weakest spot.

It was time for him to join in by empowering the rune Ella was carving, by chanting the galdr to Eihwaz. Following the others in his group, Sander chanted,"eihwaz eihwaz eihwaz e e e e e e e e e iwu iwa iwi iwa iwu iwo iwe iwi iwa iwu e e e e e e e e e" and watched with amazement as he first saw smoke and then smelt something burning.

"It's working everyone. Do you smell that? Something is burning. I believe we've broken the second ward. Now all we need to do is break the two weak spots in our first ward. Does everyone agree that the opposing rune for Raidho is Isa. If yes, can I have a go at carving that next to Raidho?" Sander asked everyone in his group.

Sander hoped that carving Isa next to Raidho would work. If it did, that just meant breaking the last rune, Jera. If it didn't, he would go hide somewhere.

Taking out his wand, Sander concentrated on what the rune Isa meant and when he was ready, began carving next to the rune Raidho, one vertical line starting from the top down to the bottom while saying,"Intaglio, Isa...Isa....Isa," and watched with abated breath for something....anything...to happen.

Thin smoke rose from the Isa rune and the burning smell started reaching everyone's noses. Hurray!