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Arithmancy was a far more precise practice than Divination. Divination used signs and portents to predict the future, Arithmancy used numbers and calculations to determine how choices would affect outcomes. The difference of something as simple as one number could result in an end completely different than if one used another number or calculation to figure it...

Elspeth Valerin couldn’t put a numerical value on love, couldn’t use addition and subtraction on the human heart. It doesn’t work. She could fact and figure her way into an assumption of the future; use the numbers to lead her choices toward positive or negative, but in the end it all came down to something she could not control.

Either Connell loved her, or he did not. And no matter how many times she looked at the numbers, she wasn’t able to decide which of the two most likely results were going to happen...

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