I spent most of the night talking with Liona, Glenda and Angelina. I was thankful for my mates to not get tired of our incessant chatter, sitting and listening intently instead of groaning with boredom or trying to distract me the way that they could do with such ease. We talked about me, my life before coming to the institute. We talked about their lives, what happened to my grandfather and great grandfather finding out that both of them had passed away in a random accident when helping to build new houses in the settlement. They gave me copies of their spell books and their ancestors spell books, each having our family symbol engraved on to the front cover.
I asked about other secrets that witches used, explaining that Clarisa had already told me about the trick with writing quantities
