Jacob smiled at Trixie one last time before class officially began. When Professor Vance greeted him by name, he felt a blush begin to creep its way up his cheeks. "Hello, Professor," he said in return. He hadn't meant to ignore her while coming in; he was just caught up in thinking, and now he felt like something of a jerk. He hoped she wouldn't take it personally or mark his grade down for his unintentional impoliteness.

Before he knew it, she was asking the class a question. Maybe he could redeem himself here. What did he know about water divination? He had just been reading about that not too long ago, hoping to improve his performance in divination as a whole... He raised his hand, remembering a fact, and answered, "Water divination can be done either indoors with a smooth bowl of water or outdoors with a natural body of water."

He remembered reading that and thinking it would be hard to do it outdoors because there would be so many environmental factors causing the water to move. How would the diviner know which ones were useful and which were just a fish swimming or something?