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| Adena Moren | Feb 3 2008, 10:21 AM |
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Farina told Adena she could sit, and she pulled out the chair and made herself comfortable. The woman then mentioned that nine years was a long time, and asked if Adena was eager to be raised. Apparently she did not know of Adena, or not much anyway. Her attempt at running away was not exactly recent, but neither was it so far gone that anyone had forgotten it. Adena wondered what exactly she should say to that, she most certainly was not eager to be raised, she was however eager to get out of this place. She had told herself only a few minutes before that she was going to be more careful about what she said, but what kind of reply could she give? After a few moments, a thought occurred to Adena, she hoped that the woman would not be offended that Adena did not want to stay, though. "I'm very eager to end my time as a novice, but before I can do that, I have to break my block," Adena said. She did not say outright that she wanted to leave, but it would not be hard to figure out. You could be raised to Accepted and still have a block, many women were, but they would not let her leave the Tower until that block was gone. For nine years she had been working toward that goal, and she was no closer now than she had been her first day in the Tower. Adena waited to see what Farina would say to that. Surely the woman would figure out that Adena had no intentions of being Aes Sedai, but that was not what Adena had wanted to conceal. She was pleased with her ability to hide her complete distaste for the Tower, and the fact that for the vast majority of her time here she had considered Aes Sedai to be witches. Yes, she had done a much better job of omitting things better left unsaid this time. Now if she could just make a habit of that again, instead of her more recent tendencies, she would be happy. Perhaps it was because she had not spoken to anyone for almost nine years if she could avoid it, she had been largely silent for the majority of that time. Now she was trying to catch up for all the talking she had not done? What a rediculous thought, she was just caught up in this idea that she did not have to work to hate the Tower, she could just look forward to her future, whatever that might be. Adena looked at the other woman, wondering what she was thinking. She was Accepted, Sealed to the Tower, and would almost certainly become Aes Sedai one day. This woman had run away and come back, Adena did not know why she had bothered to run away in the first place, but the fact that she came back spoke volumes. Maybe she had decided that it was better here than wherever she had gone. Popular rumor said that she had not been caught, but maybe it was not true, maybe she had been caught. Adena did not know why the Aes Sedai would allow that rumor to continue- it made them look less powerful than they could. In fact, Adena would not be surprised if the sisters started a rumor that some girls were caught who really had simply returned on their own, just to make themselves look better. No, Farina must have come back on her own if the Aes Sedai let that idea live for more than a day. Why though? What was so wonderful about the Tower? Why would anyone in their right mind choose to stay here in this stifling, power-hungry, greedy, controling place a moment longer than she had to? |
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