He took the dust and pressed it onto the groove like he was writing with ink. While he was doing so, he used his internal energy to hold the shape of the run he wanted.
He held the rune in place with his mind and only let it activate after he was done drawing the rune. After activating, the rune flashed and then died.
The dust of the energy stone beneath the rune had been used up and turned into ashes. This was a sign that his enchantment had failed.
He sighed and got to work repeating what he did earlier.
This was just the application and expression of a single rune. Things become more complicated when two or more runes get involved.
Then things get mind-boggling when hundreds of thousands of runes are etched onto a single glass plate. He hasn't reached that stage yet. But he is beginning to understand why the identity card is difficult to make.
