"... I'm beginning to think I brought too much food... BUT YES! The exicus rune itself, allow me to draw it... does anyone have a marker or ink on them?" Just as he asked, 'Thorn', his familiar, reached into his back pocket and brought out a quill, and planted it into his hand. "Oh, thank you Thorn!". He found a relatively flat rock, and began drawing a perfect circle on the biggest, flattest side. Then, a circle half its' size in the middle of it, and a square in the center, its' edges meeting the larger circle. He then wrote 'letters' that appeared to be weird fusions of a W and a J inside both the square and the smaller circle, in a triangle formation. "Aaand that should be it, 'Turn Familiar'. Remember, this'll only work once, so make sure what you chose is absolutely what you want. Of course, you're supposed to place the creature you wish to turn into your familiar inside the center here, but that's obvious enough. It also won't work if the body of the creature is covering any of the letters, those are vital."

He then asked, "Hmm... Excuse me, did any of you see a young woman on the road here? Around twenty, usually wears a cloak? she's another of my pupils, I'm wondering where she is.". Amusingly, he then notices Sapphire and jumps, not expecting her, "Sapphire! Lovely seeing you, I was just wondering where you were! And yes about flying creatures, there are some giant eagles flying around, large enough to carry a man off to its' nest! And there are minor Wyrms too, lizards with wings, like the ancient dragons, but much smaller in comparison. Of course, the ancient dragons were gigantic while they were still around,  so the 'minor wyrms' are still roughly person sized..."