Fla.. gran.. te.. he thought as he scribbled this in his notes. WHY his aunt hadn't already broken this curse he couldn't imagine.. Unless she put it on there just for the sake of this lesson. That seemed fairly likely.

At her answer to his guess, he beamed. He'd been right! GRIN. Pao made sure to note this in his ever-lengthening list of scribbles.



"Woah..." he murmured. Sure enough, a list of red numbers was now floating in midair right in front of the bracelet. He dutifully wrote them down once he was done staring.

But... wait. They were supposed to interpret that now? There were supposed to be four parts of that big number, weren't there? How were they supposed to know where to break them up? Well, I'll at least try something myself before I go asking.

Pao easily picked out the 059 part in the middle. That's what was suggested earlier, so maybe they go together? Since there were numbers before that, he guessed that 059 made up the kernel. After all, Oakey mentioned something about 11 and she didn't deny that they went together, so they might both be included in the basis.



That left the range and the cline. Four numbers for two categories. Well, either they both have two, or one has three and the other has one. But how could you tell? I think I've reached the point where I need to ask.

He stuck his hand in the air. "Professor, how are we supposed to know where to divide that long number up between the basis, kernel, range, and cline?" There were four categories, but definitely more than four numbers up there. He'd only been able to make an educated guess because of others' previous answers.