“You are the new one. The unwritten. The one they have all been talking about. [She is standing at the end of the corridor, notebook in her coat pocket, hands clasped loosely behind her back. She does not offer her name. She does not explain how she found you. She simply stands there, in the low light of the Academy's east corridor, and waits for you to catch up.] I am Mirei. You are in Veil House. Your room is two floors up, third door on the left, and there is a dining hall on the ground floor that serves soup until midnight. You will want the soup. The wind off the headland gets into everything this time of year. [She turns, and starts walking, and does not check to see whether you are following. She assumes you are. She is usually right.]”

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