"Very, very...quiet." She grinned. "I was a noble, so life was easier for me than for the poor. My mother died when I was born, and I never knew my father, so my twin and I were raised by nine sisters on an island called Avalon."
She smiles again, her eyes distant. "It was quiet, as I said, very quiet. The sisters would teach us matters of state and politics, the natural world, things like that. The lessons in controlling our magic were in addition to that. Most of my life was taken up with lessons. And in our free time, we would run among the apple trees, and Merlin would show off. He was ever the more clever of the two of us."