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"Let's try and rearrange things," you say. "We may only get one chance, but simply rearranging things might be the least risky."

"Okay," Raven says. "But then... What do we move around?"

"Hmm..."

You look the string of symbols over again.

fA5}A

"A lower case F, capital A, the diphthong AE, the number 5, curly bracket, the degree symbol, another capital A, a stylized cross, and possibly the sun."

"Could the fact there are two capital A's be a clue?" Raven asks.

"Hard to say," you say. "It is interesting to see that. With nine symbols, that is just an absurd amount of possibilities. But two symbols that are the same considerably reduces those possibilities, as well."

"Right, a factorial of nine becomes a factorial of eight," she says. "Instead of over 360 thousand, it's just over 40 thousand. But 40 thousand is still pretty absurd."

"It is," you say. "We could put them together, keep them apart, and even then, where? Would they be together at the beginning, the end, or somewhere in the middle?"

"Are you trying to make me feel bad for suggesting to do this?"

"No," you say, "why would I do that?"

You look at the string of symbols again.

A) Put the letter A's together at the beginning
B) Put the letter A's together at the end
C) Use the letter A's to bookend the string