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POV Astrid
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"What happened to me yesterday... why did I let things end up like this...? I should have stopped it... but I felt so good.... and now what do I do?.... It's my fault too.... haaaaaaaa... I'm going crazy."
Sitting on the couch in her office, a beautiful purple-haired woman was talking to herself as she writhed around, acting as if she was in agonizing pain that forced her to move from place to place on the couch from which she had just awakened.
The pain she felt was not physical but mental, and the reason for this was that she remembered clearly and without exception everything that had happened the night before, up to the moment she lost consciousness.
This clarity was not accidental, for Astrid possessed two innate abilities since birth: an "affinity for runes", a rare and highly valuable skill that would make her a master in magic and the creation of magic circles.
