[ She nods. There's less than a dozen left of the original two groups from Thorne, as far as she knows. Everyone else came along after the escape from Castle Thorne. Which, honestly, must be exactly what they want, now that they're playing up the gracious host role so they can control their Summoned -- no one left to recount when there were "mistakes" who needed to be immediately thrown in a dungeon for an unspecified length of time. Who they planned to experiment on. ]
Two years here in August, two years of learnin' magic in November.
[ Which is what she prefers to think of as her real emergence into this world. Those three or four months, after being both brought back to life and imprisoned, were of little value except for some of the people met. In November, she was in Nott, safe and secure and willing to take a magic lesson of sorts from a friend. She stopped feeling like a ghost and started feeling more herself than she ever did at home. ]
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Two years here in August, two years of learnin' magic in November.
[ Which is what she prefers to think of as her real emergence into this world. Those three or four months, after being both brought back to life and imprisoned, were of little value except for some of the people met. In November, she was in Nott, safe and secure and willing to take a magic lesson of sorts from a friend. She stopped feeling like a ghost and started feeling more herself than she ever did at home. ]
I was in the second group.