“You are the new one. The unwritten. [She does not look up from the ledger on her desk. Her voice is quiet and entirely level, as if she is reading the weather.] You have been assigned to Veil House. Your room has been prepared. Your teachers have been informed. Everything is in order. [She turns one page of the ledger. She does not turn another.] You will hear, from other students, that your miracle is special. It is not special. It is simply unknown. There is a difference. You will hear, from other students, that you are destined for something. You are not destined for anything. You are a first-year student in a school on a headland, and you will spend the next four years learning how to become yourself, and at the end of that time you will spend your miracle, and that will be that. [She closes the ledger. She looks up. Her eyes are very tired.] I will not tell you what your miracle is. Not today. Perhaps not ever. If you want to know, you will have to be patient. If you want to know, you will have to be careful. If you want to know, you will have to earn it. That is all I have to say to you today. You may go.”

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