A/N - I haven't abandoned anyone, or anything. Just... life happened.
Chapter Seven -
Adara shook her head a little to clear it. She had no idea how to respond to the news. All her training fled her and she found herself at a complete loss for words. Finally a few came to her- "Why on earth...?"
"I have about as much idea as you do ke'chara," Elspeth pulled away and shrugged elegantly as she came back around to resume her seat. "What I do know is that this... changes things a little."
"How so?"
"Well, your Gifts are already becoming active- your Mindspeech in particular but your Mage Gift has begun to open as well. You need training and quickly."
"Ah." Adara began to see where this was going, "So how badly is this going to scramble things?"
"We will have to meet with Dirk again to iron out the details but I have a group of beginning Mages you can join tomorrow and we'll see about the Mindspeech training. We don't normally start Gifts Training until second year but you're not precisely the average Trainee either- how old are you?"
"My papers say I will have fifteen years at next spring balance-day."
"'Your papers say...?'"
"It was an estimate and a convenient one at that. I was sold to Mother Linnes as a house servant about nine years ago. No one was sure at the time precisely how old I was- five years perhaps, possibly six. The Ruvani government does not care to keep such records on slaves or apprentice courtesans and so when my immigration papers were filed, I was recorded as having twelve years. It correlated with where I was in my training and was convenient for the Mothers."
"And you would have been sent back to Ruvan before you were sixteen, correct?"
Adara nodded, "Yes, probably in the fall, before the weather got too unsettled to make travel difficult I would have been returned to my House to complete my training and gain my Daughterhood."
Her head was spinning a little by the time she left the interview with Elspeth - a Mage. She had the Mage Gift? And what was this business about Healing Mages?
She had already had a free period this afternoon and before she had left, Elspeth had encouraged her to go spend the time with Silverfire so she left the Herald-Mage's office with every intent of heading to Companion's Field.
