Arghhh! WHY ME?!

That's what Sierra wanted to call out. Arithmancy was her least favorite subject, and it always ended with her wanting to either all pull all her hair out or scream out in agony one. She hated numbers. To her, they were about as interesting as a flobberworm. Why, oh why, had she signed up for another horrifying year again?!

Oh. Right. Her father's fiancee had thought being more well-rounded would make for a better Minister's daughter. She took a few seconds to mentally convince herself she was going to live through this, and then she raised her hand. "The two methods are called the Agrippan Method and the Chaldean Method. The Agrippan Method assigns the numbers one to nine to all the letters of the alphabet, but the Chaldean Method only uses the numbers one to eight," she explained.