Fools like us, she said. And she was actually just another kid like the rest of them, she even knew one of them. Another new student, though, like Markus. That was a bit of a relief, Markus had originally taken her for... well, he didn't know. Something strange and frightening. He relaxed a lot under the impression that she was more like them than she had first appeared. 

"So," he asked, wanting to clarify, "Are you a magic knight already? Can you tell us about it instead of being cryptic?"