By the time that Walker and Gil and returned from the other ships, they felt like they had been put through the wringer. It was a rough job channeling the wind elemental mana constantly for others. They had not done much when it came to carving runes. However, saying that they had learned nothing, would be a blunt lie.
The wind rune carvers had been able to show them the patterns they used. This had gone in to in depth conversation that the two had been glad to hear. Neither had seen or heard much about the specific origin runes since they were a tough topic to research.
The origin runes for wind had been just the same, hard to understand. Where there was normally a simple wind pattern that represented a wind rune, there were more details that couldn't be seen by the eye.