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| Farina Aileen | Feb 8 2008, 02:58 PM |
Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah, Lost during the War
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(OOC: I noticed that you posted to the thread I have as Jetsuade, but I'm busy with school stuff and I figured that this thread is more important at the moment, so if my time is short, I'll post to this one first.) "I don't believe I do speak like an Aes Sedai, I just choose my words carefully," the novice said first. Farina could have pointed out that she hadn't chosen her words very carefully when she had answered Farina's first question, but that wasn't important now. Whatever the girl would say next, it was going to be too interesting for Farina to interrupt now. When the novice finally spoke, Farina listened to her carefully, not interrupting her. Once she had finished, she wondered how to reply. She could outrightly deny each and every point she made, but she was sure that that was not the way to approach the woman. Farina was sure that this wasn't the first time someone had told her why to stay in the Tower. And besides, she tried to act as if she was already bound by the Oath, so she couldn't possibly say that Aes Sedai were not manipulative and egosentric. She would never ever say aloud that they were, but it was hardly a secret. It was just... a fact that people endured to one day be in a position to do the same. No, that wasn't quite right either. Farina didn't mean to be manipulative when she was raised. Well, not too much. Farina wasn't too surprised to hear that the novice was a Lady; there were nobles as well as merchants and peasants and crafsfolk among the initiates of the Tower, but whatever rank they had held meant nothing in the Tower. But it was surprising, though, to hear that she had learned that power wasn't everything. Farina was a peasant herself, and she couldn't possibly claim that she understood the psyche of a noble, but in her experience nobles were at least as greedy for power as commoners, if not more. And being an Aes Sedai was being in power. To Farina personally, it was all about being in power of herself. Being able to do exactly what she wanted. What could be better than that? "Have you ever considered that you could try to change that?" She hoped that she wasn't just repeating something someone else had already told her. But how could she know? She would have to wait for Adena's reply to see. "You could be a different kind of Aes Sedai, not manipulative, not thinking just about your own benefit. As an Aes Sedai, you could do whatever you want. You would have power, but not only over other people, but over yourself, over different choices. Whatever you want to do with your life, you can as an Aes Sedai, even if you couldn't as a noble. That's something to think about, don't you agree?" She waited patiently to hear what the novice had to say about that. |
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