He had SPACED! Tobi scrambled to catch up.

"Ma'am" said Tobi raising his hand, "the capstone like the cornerstone takes from our firstname at birth it never changes if we change our name, but it uses our last letter, even though I go by Tobi, my Capstone is 'S' because by actual birthname is Tobias. It shows us our inclination for finishing what we start. some people are starters and some people are finishers, and the capstone shows us that."

"Yes yes! Goob. I'll give you each two boints."

Resuming her stroll around the classroom, Professor Shackleton instructed, "Similar to what you dib with the Cornerstone, I'd like you all to deterbine your Capstone, then write down what inforbation the textbook provides about that letter. Finally, assess whether or not you think the inforbation accurately abblies to you. That is, does the inforbation abbly to your cabacity for and philosophy toward finishing projects that you start?"

Alessia, who had snuck in the back of the class raised her hand. "Hi! Can Uhmmm you tell me how many 0's are in a gagillion?" She smiled, and had a pad of paper and a pen.

Watching Miss Shackleton walk around the classroom, Clifford listened carefully to her instructions. They just had to do what they'd done before with the Cornerstone, bu this time with the Capstone! Sounded okie dokie to him!

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Originally Posted by Clifford's Parchment

D: You are down to earth, practical, efficient, orderly and systematic. You are shrewd and determined. You can concentrate and overcome many difficulties. You have natural authority but can also be stubborn and rigid.

"Hmmm. I suppose the down to Earth and practical bit is right," he stated, brow furrowing slightly. And the stubborn bit. Eh. "But I wouldn't really say I can overcome difficulties very well." It couldn't be perfectly wright every time, could it?

"What you got, Evie?" He asked, leaning over the desk again. "Ah.. E.." Bwaha!

Nodding again, and pulling her parchment closer, Liz starts writing

Looking at what she wrote, it seems right, but I guess everything can't be exact.

Looking up when she hears a voice ask about how many 0's in a gagillion. What?

Elizabeth quickly scanned the textbook for her Capstone. Last letter of my first name. So H, she thought. Then, as she located it in the book, she wrote it down in her journal.

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H: You are creative and original. You make and lose money easily. However, you will probably do well financially in the long run. You are independent and you rely on your own judgment. You may be a loner. Skepticism and self-doubt are your greatest enemies. You need time in nature to feel your true self and re-establish your direction and clarity.

Then she glanced it over a few times, thinking about what it said, as compared to what she thought about herself, before scribbling more underneath the description.

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Well, I can't say much about the money aspect, but I am fairly independent. I like my friends, and I can't do without them, but I don't need them to make my decisions for me or anything. And I definitely have had moments this term where I have doubted myself, and my worth.

As for my philosophy toward finishing things I start, I think it seems fairly accurate. I mean, if I say I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it. And I like being original, not copying whatever is already there for me.

Then she tapped her quill against her lower lip, rereading it all and trying to figure out if it made sense, before her attention was diverted by the Ancient Runes professor's entrance and question. O-kay, she thought. She wasn't even sure she knew what a gagillion was, let alone how many zeros it had.

Tobi found the letter S, it was right where it had always been in the alphabet, so it didn't give him much trouble.

Qaz looked up the letter Z:

much more accurate that the other one was, Qaz thought.

Cale looked down at his textbook, trying to locate the letter B. Even though no one called him Caleb, that WAS his official name, no matter how atrocious it sounded to him.

Shy? That definitely wasn't him. He remembered his mum telling him stories how he had walked up to stranges in the market when she was doing her shopping and introducing himself to them when he was little. The emotional bit was true though, no matter how much he didn't want to admit it. He made a few notes on his parchment and continued to read his description when he heard someone pipe up from the back of the class.

Turning in his seat, his eyes widened as he saw Professor Lupa sitting in the back, asking how many 0's a gagillion had. Oh Merlin. Rolling his eyes at the nutty professor, he turned and focused his interest on Shackleton, wondering what her reaction would be. He remembered all too clearly her obvious annoyance at the whole Jack Mosier incident, and guessed that because of that, and her obvious allergies, she would be less than friendly with Lupa.

Evangeline rolled her eyes as Clifford asked her what her Capstone was. Baah. He just wanted to tease her! Well, she'd just ignore him. Hmpf. She pondered on whether or not to copy down that information again, but decided she might aswell.

E: You need plenty of freedom. You are physical and passionate and it is possible you will be married more than once. You like to be social and entertain. You are highly perceptive and not easily fooled. You are original and versatile. You are capable of looking at a situation from different perspectives.

After she was done with that, she raised her hand. "Well, judging by the way I seem to be unable to keep serious relationships in the future, I'd say I have very little capacity of finishing what I've started." Hence the marrying more than once thing. But it was a liiiiiiie! She was perfectly capable of finishing what she started. "Professor?" She asked, smiling nervously as Lupa entered. Oh, brilliant. "My cornerstone and capstone are the same. That's not a problem is it?"

As there was no success with the Cornerstone, he hoped there would be with the Capstone.

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S: You are charming and charismatic. You are a warm and devoted person. You are very emotional, the result perhaps of a sad childhood. You are intense and may react in an extreme manner. Don't be too impulsive; take your time before making a decision and carefully sort out your emotions. You are passionate and loving and will experience many emotional ups and downs.

Miles snorted, it was scarily right, especially about the emotional and loving parts. "Yey!" He beamed. The sad childhood, partly correct, as it wasn't like UBER depressing, but still. It was spot on. WOOP.

Barry peeked at Cales work and said "B? Your name isn`t Cale?" woah he shouldn`t have done that.

Now back to his thing yes Y


"Freedom is important, I don`t like limitations, I`m ambitious, not exactly courages and I am indapendent in the way I don`t relly on my dad much, I don`t take too long to make decisions, I just think about it first" said Barry wondering about his letter.

"No, dear. Dat is not a probleb. It simply beans you embloy the same abbroaches to different asbects of your life."

Professor Shackleton closed and opened her eyes several times in an attempt to focus. Was that really Alessia Lupa sitting in her class asking silly questions or did she brew that anti-allergy potion horribly wrong? This was the type of behavior she expected from Max, not Less. Sniffling softly, Professor Shackleton replied, "Welcobe to Advanced Arithbancy, Professor Luba. Though your question doesn't pertain to our lesson in any way, I'd be habby to answer. A gagillion is a fictional number of indefinite quantity. There is no answer to the number of zeros, because the number doesn't actually exist."

She then returned her attention to the class, despite her confusion over Lupa's odd behavior. That was the second run-in with the Runes professor that left her with an odd feeling. Hmm. "Ok, I think it is time to bove onto the Growth Number. What inforbation does the Growth Number gib us and with what Core number do we evaluate it with?"

"The growth number," Clifford started hand in the air. "that's the number that sorta describes how to grow as we progress through our life paths, right? It tells us what our greatest potentials are and ... yeah.."

Smiling at Professor Shackleton's answer about gajillion.

Liz raises her hand to answer the next question, "It is known as The key. It tells us how to grow more as we go down our life path. It shows, where we use our ummm," looking down at the book "self-actualization will be at in our lives."

"The number it follows is our life path number." she adds finishing.

Alessia giggled at the MacShackAttack's Accent. She'd said Goob earlier and she held her laughter but now... it was just too funny. Less leaned in to Evangeline and whispered, "I wonder if she's be habby to answer adother question?" She then laughed some more before coming to a stop... "No, No, Wait, Wait..." She kept trying to stop laughing at the pretty and very proper professor. "Ok, so... what if it wasn't fictional? How many 0's then? Oh and how many in a bazillion?"

"The growth number tells you how to grow in your progress of your life path. Just, basically how you're doing and how you should acheive it." Miles shrugged with his hand raised.

Anna glanced down at the information she'd recorded about her Cornerstone---the letter A. The problem with her name was that it began and ended with the same exact letter. Oddly enough, she didn't have to do any additional work for her Capstone. She reread the information on her parchment:

Cornerstone: A
Capstone: A

Underneath the textbook's description, Anna recorded her thoughts about how the information applied to her:

Wow. This Cornerstone and Capstone information is surprisingly accurate. My family and friends tell me that although they truly don't believe I tend to be bossy towards others, I am. I guess I do sort of jump into situations and try and take charge. I can't help it if I do, though. I tend to set really high goals for myself and stress myself out until I accomplish all of them. I guess you could say this is sort of a downfall of mine, though. I really should learn to relax a bit more. The independent part is true, too. I tend to enjoy accomplishing goals through the peacefulness and quietness of working alone. I can organize my thoughts better that way. My family and friends try to assist me and give me their ideas, as well, but I'm usually bound and determined to go with my own gut instinct. Maybe I should be more open to their ideas, too. Perhaps I wouldn't stress myself out so much. "Professor," Anna said, raising her hand. "My Cornerstone and Capstone is the same letter. Do I need to do any different, or do I just apply the same information?"

Hearing the sound of another question being asked, Anna raised her hand and said, "The Growth Number, or key, tells us how to continue growing as we progress through our life path. It also pinpoints areas that will assist us in discovering our own true nature. We relate the Growth Number to the Life Path Number."

Evangeline smiled slightly when Shackleton said it wasn't a problem. Okay, she wasn't a freak then ... but she wasn't sure if having the same approach was that good either!

But onto the growth number now.

"The growth number reveals ... well, how we'll grown really. How we're gonna change througout our life.." Evangeline answered, raising her hand. "And we evaluate it with the Life Path number." Yup, yup. That made sense.


Evangeline almost froze when Lupa leaned closer to her, thinking it was now that she woman was going to strangle her. But no ... they were BFF's now, after all. Riiiiiiight. "I ... suppose." The sixth year whispered in reply, too scared not to say anything and too scared to actually reply. Bah! Shackleton was bound to not like the way Lupa was acting. Hmm.

Elizabeth raised her hand. "The Growth number is in correlation with our Life Path number, and shows us how to progress along our path, growing while we do. And it also tells us where our greatest potential for self-actualization may be."

"The growth number tells us how to further grow as we continue on our life path, like extra information to help us on our path of life" said Barry hand raised.

"Bery goob. Three boints."

"Goob describshuns of da Growth Number. Two boints abiece. Achoo!"

"You would abbly the inforbation differently. The Cornerstone describes your abbroach to obstacles and obbortunities, while the Capstone describes how you finish projects you start. You need to keep those in mind when interbreting the inforbation."

Professor Shackleton's eyes narrowed slightly. She didn't tolerate students disrupting her classroom with chattiness and laughter, and she didn't much appreciate a professor doing the same. But it wasn't as if she could reprimand a professor in front of other students. That would be rather disrespectful, and despite Lupa's lack of respect for Mac's authority in her own classroom, Mac wasn't going to stoop to the same level.

Trying to appear as if she was appreciating the humor and in good spirits, she replied smartly, "If it wasn't fictional, then I subbose we'd just let you choose how bany zeros. So you tell us. Same goes for a bazillion. Enlighten us." Standing with her hands on her hips, Macadrian gave Lupa a look that said, 'What in Merlin's beard are you doing disrupting my class without my permission?'

Beaming at her favorite professor, she murmurs "thank you" thrilled at getting 3 points for her answer.

She watches and listens intently at how the professor, answers Professor Lupa's odd questions.

Tobi watched the exchange between Professor Loopy Lupa and Professor Shackleton, his head snapping back and forth between them like it were a tennis match.

Ball is in your court Professor Loopy.

She giggled, "Well if it was up to me I would have... a gagilion zeros!" She laughed and leaned into Evangeline again, "And she's the Arithbancy Propethor? She should know right?"