"To appreciate the light, one must first know darkness."
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It was a snowy, winter day. The very last day of the year, in fact. December 31st, New Year's Eve, with a raging blizzard outside. On this particular day, a certain girl was born. But unlike other childbirths... there was no sound of a baby crying coming from within the room.
"The baby... she is not crying at all," the old maid breathed, utterly perplexed and confused as she held a female baby in her arms. "I cannot believe this... in all my years and experience as a housemaid... I have never witnessed a child who did not cry upon being birthed..."
"She will surely grow up to be a fine young lady," the butler said with a warm smile, standing beside her and stroking his beard. "Able to control her emotions so well, despite only just being born... what a miracle."
