(A/N- Here we go again. Another author's note. This time I'm cut this and go right to the sweet stuff. The people who reviewed need to get recognized like I promised, so here I go:
Lilyflower8602- Once and for all, I will NOT SIGN YOUR PETITION. Now, stop saying that. K?
K. So, here is chapter 4. I don't know if my writer's block is finally gone or not. Whatever. So, here it is! And don't forget to r+r!
~Lady Arabella Sedai
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Chapter 4- DiscoveriesAra sighed as she submerged her arms in the soapy water. She was here all because of Lily. Lily had convinced her to go play a trick on the Myrelle Sedai, who seemed to particularly hate them. Maybe it was the fact that they never really paid attention in her class, but for whatever the reason, they had decided to play a trick on her. So they used the Power to rig a bucket of ice-cold water so it dumped on anyone who went though the door to Myrelle's tent. The only problem was that Myrelle wasn't the first to go through. It was bad enough that it wasn't Myrelle. What made it even worse was that it was the Amyrlin Seat. Why Ara seemed to have problems with the Amyrlin she didn't know, but now she was stuck scrubbing pots three hours a day for a month! And it was only her second month here at the rebel Tower! This wasn't the first thing she had done. The list probably went for miles, from the bucket of water to tardiness, to forgetting to call Aes Sedai their title of Sedai, to being caught after dark out of her tent, all the way to being caught within a mile of Tar Valon without permission. All she had wanted to do then was help, since she wasn't bound to the Three Oaths, and was more powerful then the three most powerful Aes Sedai linked! Elayne, Queen of Andor, Nynaeve, her Aes Sedai advisor, and Egwene, the Amyrlin, had linked and tried to shield Ara from saidar, instructing her to try to do the same to them. Well, guess who had won. Ara. She was only 18, yet had severed all the flows directed at her without having learned how and just barely being able to see the weaves, and had shielded them, with them holding saidar. It was thought impossible for one woman to block three linked while they held the One Power, or had been thought until Ara did it. So she had been sure that she could help. But she had literally been dragged back and sent straight to the Mistress of Novices. She hadn't been able to sit down comfortably for a week!
"You! Novice! Stop daydreaming and get to work! Those pots won't scrub themselves!!!!"
"Yes Mistress."
Another thing that the Aes Sedai didn't know was that she knew the trick of Inverting, or hiding her weaves. She had hid her weaves so none could see or sense them, so they did her work for her while she pretended to do it. Burn the Aes Sedai who had thought that scrubbing pots and doing other work built character!
"How you doing, Ara?" whispered Lily.
"Oh, just fine," snapped Ara. "Just fine doing work that is all because of you!"
"Oh, but it's not my fault that you chose to do it, is it?" she contradicted.
"Whatever."
"What are you two doing! Get back to work! And an extra day scrubbing for you!" yelled a kitchen hand.
"Now look what you got us," whispered Ara hotly. "More work! And it is only our second day!"
"But isn't it fun to know that you're doing something supposedly with your body, but really with the Power without anyone knowing?" Ara had taught all her new friends the inverting trick. Only she could see the flows that they had woven. Another useful trick she hadn't learned, but already knew. She shouldn't have been able to see those weaves, for no one but her and the weaver could see them, but she could. Not an ability she was about to tell about though.
~I wish Ara wouldn't be so jumpy about breaking the rules.~
"What do you mean? What were you talking about?" asked Ara.
"What? I didn't say anything," responded Lily, sounding confused. "You must be hearing things."
"But I could have sworn I just heard you say that you wished I wasn't so jumpy about breaking the rules," said Ara, just as confused as Lily.
Lily just stared at Ara. Ara was getting a very sick feeling inside. Why was she staring at her like that? "I didn't say that. I thought it."
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"Come on! You need to tell the Amyrlin!"
"NO!" shouted Ara.
Ara was back in her tiny tent. It was even smaller now, thanks to the fact that she, Lily, Stella, Sa, Chrissy, Vana, and Zelda were all crammed into the tent.
"Why not?" demanded Sa. "You could get tons of credit, and would be raised to Accepted probably as soon as we recapture the Tower!"
"No. It is mine for me to deal with."
~What a stubborn, Light-blinded fool. She could have anything, yet she refuses it,~ thought Vana.
~How stubborn is she?~ thought Sa.
~Light!!!~ thought Zelda.
~She is an idiot!~ thought Chrissy.
~What foolishness,~ thought Stella.
~Why wont she listen to reason? Our reasons made perfect sense! And if it was found out, she could get in deep trouble. Just like if it was found out that she knew how to invert weaves. She has to be careful!~ thought Lily.
"Fine. I'm tired of everyone thought-insulting me. I will tell the Amyrlin" conceded Ara.
"Yeah! We knew you would! Go tell her now!" shouted Zelda.
"No, I will not right now. I never said when, since you cut me off. I will tell the Amyrlin after we capture the White Tower. Deal?"
"Fine," agreed Vana sullenly. "But in the meantime, we can use it to eavesdrop on the Aes Sedai. Kind of. Well, not really eavesdrop. More like find out what they're thinking before they say it. It would me quite handy, since we won't get in so much trouble."
"Yeah!" chorused the rest of the girls.
"Very well. I'll tell her when we regain the Tower. Until then, she won't hear a whisper of it."
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~Lady Arabella Sedai