Katherine chuckled at Livia's comment about the "ominous title" that she held.  Well, at least this one wasn't too hard to explain.  [color=green]"I suppose the first part is that people like to think witches and old hermits live in dark spooky woods. Which, as a matter of fact, I did.  A very dark, very magical woods.  Not to say I didn't see the sunlight, just not as often as I would have liked."[/color]  Before continuing she made a wide gesture to her numerous, facially blank dolls that stood around the room.  Some of them looked at her and cocked their head slightly as she made such a weird movement.  [color=green]"My father, well, I guess 'Master' would be a bit more correct. . . Anyhow, he taught me this ability and told me I had a great natural talent for what he does.  Binding the souls of the dead into these normally inanimate bodies."[/color]  

Katherine gave a loving look over all of the small dolls that were spread about before continuing her story.  [color=green]"So I got the "dark" part from how dark people thought my magic can be. The name spread, but hey, people back home know me by that so I can usually find help every now and then from people that recognized it from friends.  In fact, one of them suggested me to this school."[/color]  With a smile she looked over the headmistress with an inquisitive look before giving a light smile and speaking once more.  [color=green]"So I suppose unless you find my abilities 'dark' as well, then you have little to worry about.  I've no plans to do anything especially malicious. I say especially since people tend to think that binding spirits to dolls as I do to be somewhat malicious."[/color] She had little else to say on the subject so she merely felt she needed to ask, [color=green]"Did you suspect me of being in a dark and evil circle of mages or something?"[/color]  The puppeteer just had to ask.  If the headmistress had any weird thoughts running through her head, then they needed to be expelled quickly.