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Even though she was our only employee, who lived in the mansion, she turned off the light when I was in bed (another very good woman, although strict towards me) and she just said:

In which the city is always night.

Good evening, Esther. – She always left there, leaving me alone.

Even though there were still only seven girls at the neighboring school, where I was a semi-boarder, and even though they called me Astrid, Solveig, and we knew them at home, even though they were all older than me (I was the youngest there), but there seemed to be another separation, they were all magicians, witches, ladies of chaos, who were taken to that school to learn to be mediators and get involved in the art of magic.

That's how it happened that it stayed between us beyond this, as well as them being much more intelligent than me and knowing much more than I knew.