You can’t do that to somebody’s soul. Teacher was nearly demented. Did you know what we did to him? I say we, but he wasn’t my project … he was a holy terror. Blame your own House for that! I can’t be grateful enough to those Second ninnies for killing him and calling for help. He was the only one here who scared me. He couldn’t have stopped me, but he might have made things stupid.” “Why did Teacher not recognise you?” “Perhaps he did,” said the woman. It sounded like she was smiling. “Who knows what that soul melange was ever thinking?” There was another pause. She said, “You’ve taken this
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