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Lady of the Lake 
She tried to focus. She really did. But numbers were baffling. Still, Ari's curiosity was piqued when she heard something about a sequence of numbers representing a name. 'Do you think it's my dad's name?' She asked, wanting to make sure she had followed what Gwen was saying. 'Lemme see.' the lioness looked at the piece of parchment.
Interesting. 'So you reckon this 33674 is his first name in code?' There were loads of men's names containing five letters, but it was still a start. As for the first two letters...'We can definitely rule out Cc and Uu, 'cause I haven't heard of any names beginning like that. ' But there still remained many possibilities. 'Cl, Cu, Ll, Lu,' Ariadne was thinking out loud. 'And there's only one number 4 in the whole name.' Maybe it meant something?
Although they didn't have much yet, Ari felt they were on to something. Her pulse already quickened. Gwen was a genius!
The diary was full of numbers, but Gwendolyn was almost sure that these were standing for a name. Though, that didn’t mean it was the name of Ariadne’s father.
‘I don’t know. Maybe. But any name written here could be helpful’ A name that was important enough to be written in code was definitely important to them too. Well, to Ari, actually.
‘Right’, Gwendolyn nodded, as her best friend just excluded two of the possibilities.
‘What about Ul?’ That wasn’t a common name, but still…
‘The third letter is a 6, that means either F, O or X. I’d exclude the first and the last. But than, with the O remaining, it’s impossible to have another vowel before. So Cu and Lu are also out of the question’ Yes, she was sure about this. No need to overthink the possibility that there might be an F in the word.
‘Than, there’s just Llo or Clo, though I don’t see what name would start with the last one…’ L-L-O. Gwen just eyed the three letters for a moment, before moving on to the fourth number. 7. G, P or Y.
Hmmm.
After spending a few good minutes on the first name, Gwendolyn drew her attention to the next sequence of numbers, which was even more complicated than the first.
G, P or Y. Hmm. Think, Gwen, think! Even though the name seemed more complex at first, it was actually a bit easier than the first one. Why? The number 8 was standing for H, Q or Z, so the chances that the last two letters were the ones which matched, were slim to none.
So H it is. Then, for one- it had to be A. Then, a letter was written twice. It couldn’t be C-C or U-U. L-L was the only one remaining. And the name ended with a 9. This number corresponded to only two letters. R or I.
Gwen continued to examine the numbers carefully, saying nothing out loud until…
‘Gallagher’, she said all of a sudden, then drew her attention away from the piece of parchment, in order to look back at Ari. Did that name mean anything to her?