The first few of Alex's attempts were absolutely botched, to say the least.
For a man who hadn't held a pen in almost 4 years, holding a brush and having made it to make intrinsic design was absolutely undoable.
That being true only for the first few times at least.
His hands were sturdy like a surgeon and he could hold his brush as steadily as well. But being steady came at the cost of flexibility one was required to move their wrists dynamically as per the rune's demand.
After fumbling so bad the first 2 times where the result couldn't even be called a talisman and then the next 2 times which both resulted in less than 10% alignment, Alex finally succeeded on his 5th attempt with 14%.
Alex felt a little disappointed that he took nearly an hour to draw this simple rune that his mother drew as if she were writing a grocery list.
Still, he was at least happy to have done it.
