Forged Destiny [Book 4: Ch. 1]

Of course, I hadn't sat down and started scratching random shapes onto a sword. That would have been foolish… not to mention dangerous and expensive.

I'd scratched them onto cutlery instead.

The less said about the results, the better. Some melted, others exploded, and some ground down into dust. I doubted that was the intent of the Runes, especially since if so, the ancient languages had a lot of ways of saying `exploding spoon`.

—Forged Destiny [Book 4: Ch. 1]