Piping up finally, the fire had been tooo entrancing not to watch Patroclus cleared his throat and began.

"Professor Sideromancy was a divininational art used by the Ancient Romans. An odd number of straws would be dropped onto a red hot iron skillet, a type of stove, and the diviner would take readings from the patterns of smoke, as well as the ways the straws twisted and warped as they were blistred by the heat."
That one sounded like watching sausages cook on a bbq.......speaking of which Patroclus was rather hungry, where were those hot dogs??

"Also Professor I thought I should make mention of the Vestal Virgin," It seemed Patroclus alwasy found away to relate something to Ancient History, "They were a college of Ancient Roman Priestesses, that were charged with the protection of the Sacred Flame of Vesta, in the Temple of Vesta. Here they would worship and praise the Sacred Flame and divine from it's light. It is amazing how very important they were to ancient Roman Society, yet they are so often over looked."