You will have to cut all connections. Start a new life. Face dangers you've never even thought of.
But you will have knowledge and power far beyond human reach.
"I would be honored to be your apprentice".
Julie, or whatever her name really is, considers her granddaughter's proposal for a while. "Let it be, then", she says, finally. "You will spend three days alone, in the
woods, without food nor sleep, to cleanse your soul from the corrupting influence of civilization. Then you will return to me, and begin your apprenticeship as
Twenty-sixth Witch of the School of Aea".
Aea. Wasn't it an island or something?
You begin your purification ritual, and as the three days pass by you feel stronger, cleaner, crystalline.