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There was hair pulling over here.
CB was tugging on the ends of her hair, frustrated and slightly confused. With a sigh, she stood up from her desk, and adjusted her toga before heading toward the front of the room to grab another kabob. Arithmancy was not her thing as she was slowly finding out.
On her way back to her seat, she nibbled at the kabob, almost dropping a piece in the process. She straightened her parchment tent as she wiggled into her seat and went back over her notes.
ONE: generator of all numbers, not actually considered a number; characterized reason What????
TWO: first female number; characterized opinion and division What does this mean??
THREE: first male number, combination via addition of 1 (unity) and 2 (division); characterized harmony I don't get this either.
FOUR: second female number, represented space and matter; characterized by justice and order Why do they have genders?
FIVE: union of first male and female numbers; characterized love and marriage They're not alive...
SIX: Product of two and three. First male and female numbers. New life is formed after marriage. Creation????
SEVEN: ????
EIGHT: ????
NINE: ????
TEN: unites 1, 2, 3, and 4, represents the idea of everything; characterized by the cosmos??????
She desperately wanted something to chew on, to calm her nerves. Apparently she wasn't as prepared as she thought she was and attempted to hide her notes under her arms whenever the professor got too close. Heh.
Desperate for some help, CB tapped the girl who happened to be sitting in front of her (Sophie) on the shoulder with the feathery end of her quill, making sure the glittery pink ink didn't drip in the process.
"What did you get?" 'Cause i've got nothing.
Sophie glanced up as the professor verified that what she'd wrote down so far was correct. Cool. So at least she didn't have to redo what she'd already done and could just go from there. She was actually surprised she'd managed to do so well so far. Usually, this subject was one of the three she wasn't so great in.
She copied down a few more things onto her parchment:
ONE: generator of all numbers, not actually considered a number; characterized reason
TWO: first female number; characterized opinion and division
THREE: first male number, combination via addition of 1 (unity) and 2 (division); characterized harmony
FOUR: second female number, represented space and matter; characterized by justice and order
FIVE: Five is a combination of two plus three, and since two is a female number and three is a male number, I think five could represent love. It sort of makes sense to me, since we weren't told that we could also combine 1 and 4 to equal 5. It's like we purposely added just the female plus male numbers. <333
TEN: Ten is a combination of ALL the numbers listed above. We were told it comes from adding combinations of 1, 2, 3, and 4, and since we also got to 5 by adding 2 and 3, I think ten means EVERYTHING. So it would equal reason (1), opinion/division (2), harmony (3), justice/order (4), and love (5).
SIX (2x3): Represents creation, new life formed after marriage.
SEVEN:
EIGHT:
NINE:
She started to dip her quill in ink when she felt a tap on her shoulder. Oh, heyyy--a partner! Yeah, she needed one of those in one of her worst subjects. She slid her parchment closer to the girl, so she could see Sophie's answers for the first part.
"The professor said these were right," she said, pointing to the top of her parchment.
"Let me see what I can come up with for seven, eight, and nine."
She turned around and started jotting down a few things.