"I was normal, once.  I didn't have the Resonance..."  She was quiet.  "I grew up, had my Emergence...but nothing happened.  Everyone was sure that I was supposed to have magic.  So they sent me to Council Island, see if anyone could teach me how.  That's when I was exposed to the outside world to the first time.  To people besides Elves.  I didn't think the stay would be permanent...but a man coming through told the head of the mission what I was..."