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"The high count said that I'd started shrieking. But I feel like I'd remember that." She stopped. The words were too dangerous to say out loud. But it felt like, maybe, the headmaster had wanted her to say that Madame Bandu had put her under a spell, that that was why she was acting the way she had. And it felt like if she had said it, he would have forgotten she'd ever gone into his office.

Daria raised her hand again. "But what I was asking was, if the Dread is from an old curse, how could it just change like that without--"
"Mademoiselle, as I said, we are looking into every possible cause."
Daria folded her arms and sat back on the bench. Marya's brain grabbed on to the sentence that she had not finished and turned it around until she could see how it was supposed to end.

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