So Professor Cassie, as predicted, was completely on board with this. "Thanks," she said. "I'm not sure how good I'll be at this, but you can just take it for what it's worth." Which meant that the reading may or may not be accurate, but Kate would let them be the judge of that. It turned out that Professor Quigley was completely on board, too. That was surprising to Kate for some reason. "Anything for a student?" she asked, not missing that one. "That's awesome. I'll keep that in mind."

"Okay, so I'll be calculating your Major Cycles today," she said. "This means I'll be giving you information about the beginning, middle, and end of your life." Were either of them forty yet? Kate remembered hearing something about the mid-forties. She was twelve and had no real idea what forty looked like.

"Okay, so the first thing I need is the month in which you were born," she said to both of them. "Oh, and your age right now would help make this a lot easier to figure out." That played a major part in the actual meaning of all this.