Sierra had just peered closely at the sundial, trying to get it to work, when she heard a voice behind her. "No. I was running from a herd of stampeding elephants," she sarcastically, frowning at him. Honestly. He was a Claw, wasn't he? What was he going to do now--try and get smart about the fact that she was stomping onto his territory? She looked down at the sundial then, turning it this way and that then finally getting it into the place she needed it to be at. She stared the arrow part in the middle.

"No, really, I think someone geminio'ed the stairs. I think I just climbed six billion," she said. Then slowly, a shadow started creeping across the bar which would tell her the time, so Sierra quietened and focused on it for a minute. "I'm not," she finally answered. "What I am, though, is the winning type, and this little assignment can bring in up to ten house points." Not that he'd need to be working for more house points, though. His house was currently in first. "Besides, my stepmother works here, and it's not easy skipping out on assignments with a parent in the castle."