"Yes," she nodded, taking a breath to steady herself. "I’ve been... There's a challenge I’ve been facing and I recently turned to arithmancy to find a solution. I listed a quality of attributes I was looking for and keyed the equations to a customised revealing spell that would show me if people in my vicinity might have the requisite qualities to help solve the challenge. If there was a partial match, they would appear to me as if they had a faint crown on their head. A perfect match would appear solid, and gradients in between would be respectively opaque. I did this about three weeks before running into you at the bookstore and up to that point, I had not seen any indication, weak or strong, of any match whatsoever. I was actually pretty sure I must have made a mistake in the initial spell or equations..." 