"...I learned many things about magic and the world from her. She taught me to be her apprentice and servant…She was a strange woman. We lived in a small library in the streets of the Imperial City. She conducted illegal fortune tellings in the basement for a side business. One day, when I was nine years old, she was taken away, and never returned."
When Finley didn't expand on that comment, Abrial blinked, dumbfounded. "What—just taken away? Taken away by who?"
