Phyre blinked. "You're a Black!? So am I. Wow. Small world, right? Though, I guess there are a million of us." (Despite the fact that the line died with Sirius almost 65 years prior ) She then pulled her parchment close to her and began to do the work.



"See?" she asked, sliding the work over. "Your Life Path Number is five. That's the easier calculation. If you write it out in numeric order, then you just add each number together. January, one, plus the fifth, plus two for 2000, the 6 for sixty, and that's fourteen. But you can't have a number in the double digits, so you add the one and the four from fourteen to get five. Simple enough. The fact that 2060 has two zero's in it makes the process quicker. For my birth date, it would be more difficult, since I was born two years before you. And now, I'll do the other work."



"See the chart?" Phyre asked, pointing the copy she had redrawn for the equation. "I took the number assigned to each of the letters in your name and added them all up. It came to ninety-nine, and that's more than one digit, so I added nine and nine. Then that came to eighteen, which is still more than one digit, so I added one and eight. That made nine, which is your Destiny number. So, Adelyn, your Life Number is five, and your Destiny Number is nine. Got it? Now try with my information. My full name is Sapphyre Edwige Prince-Black, and I was born on October 13, 2078." She then wrote down her full name on her calculation sheet, knowing very well that Sapphyre was usually spelled with an I and Edwige was a very irregular French name.