Other than Valarie's lingering resentment towards the goddess, she still taught them the basics of rune magic. In fact, she had given them a demonstration, making them inscribe a rune using the name of their attribute.
Evangeline's rune was Light—which she activated too carelessly, nearly causing a disaster before Valarie quickly dispelled it.
Sylvia inscribed Lunar, and hers too flared brightly before it was extinguished for safety.
The others all tried their hands at their own runes.
It was only the very basics—Valarie taught them how to write their attribute name in rune script, then left them with what she called homework.
If you could even call where they were a "home"...
It was an underground, floating pile of wreckage drifting above monster-infested waters. Their shelter groaned with every current, rusting metal and broken slabs of old buildings bound together into a makeshift fortress.
