(A/N- Here I am, back for another chapter!  Chapter 6 this time!  There will be a Chapter 7, and an Epilogue.  I'm pretty sure that will be all for To Be Accepted, k?  Yeah.  So thanx for reading this, and don't forget to r+r!  Thanx!  Now on to the story!!!

~Lady Arabella Sedai)

Chapter 6- Moving Day

Ara woke bright and early the next morning due to the fact that Lily jumped on her bed.  "What do you want?" groaned Ara.  She had had another sleepless night.  "Go away if it's not important."

"I was told by Tiana Sedai to wake you.  We're packing and leaving in one hour."

"What!!!!" yelped Ara, literally jumping out of bed.  "Only one f***ing hour!!!!"

"What does f***ing mean?"

"What do you mean?  It's a swear word.  Haven't you ever heard it?"

"No.  Where did you hear it?"

With that question Ara froze.  She had never heard it before in her lifetime, but the feeling of another person in her head was still there.  It had come a month ago, but Ara had just thought that it was something that would go away.  Maybe she could have Nynaeve Sedai look at it if she was ever around.  But that word had come from that bundle of thoughts in her head!

"Um, I don't remember," lied Ara.  Yeah, so novices weren't supposed to lie.  What tsag.

"What does 'tsag' mean?  Is it the Old Tongue?"

Ara realized that she had spoken out loud, not in her head like she thought.  At this rate, she was going to go blabbing all her secrets to the Aes Sedai.  Burn these memories!  "Tsag is a swear word in the Old Tongue, yes.  I don't remember exactly what though."

"Oh.  Well, we just spent like, fifteen minutes talking.  You had better get packing!" Lily shouted as she sprinted out of the tent.

"Burn her," whispered Ara.  Now she only had forty-five minutes to pack!  S***!

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That night, Ara was sound asleep in her new room, a small block of white plaster with a small bed and nightstand, plus hooks for her dresses, when a loud knock sounded on her door.  "Come in," Ara called sleepily.

"Why are you in bed?" demanded Lily, stepping into the room and closing the door behind her.  "You promised you'd tell the Amyrlin, remember?"

"Oh, yeah.  I forgot.  I'll just tell her in the morning…"

"You will not tell her in the bloody morning!  You'll tell her bloody now!" Lily almost screamed.

"Fine…I'm getting up."  Ara groaned as she got up and put back on her novice dress.  "Now you come with me."

"I'm not the one going to see the Amyrlin.  You are."

"Then why don't you at least walk with me there?"

"Because I might get punishment for not doing anything."

"Fine then, be that way."

Ara stalked out of her room, just remembering that Lily was going out the door in time to not slam the door on her face.  She strode off towards the Amyrlin's Study.  Funny how she never had been there, or been taught where it is, yet she knew exactly where it was."

"What do you want?" asked a sharp voice.  Ara looked up at Sheriam and curtsied.

"I wish to speak to the Amyrlin Seat about something of much importance."

"The Amyrlin can not be bothered by a novice like you.  You can give your message to me and I'll give it to her."

Ara took a deep breath and hurriedly said, "What I have to say is for the Amyrlin's ears alone.  I want no one else to know of it unless she wishes it."

"You aren't going to go away are you?"

"Um…no Aes Sedai," gulped Ara.

"Very well.  Let me see if the Amyrlin will see you."

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Egwene looked up as Sheriam entered the Amyrlin's Study.  Her study, actually, since she was the Amyrlin.  "What do you want, Daughter?"

"Mother, the novice Arabella Transtiva wishes to speak to you."

"What does she want?  I have things that need to get done."

"She wouldn't tell me. She only said that what she had to say was for your ears alone."

"Very well.  But if she means that this means that she can come to me for everything, she is very much mistaken."

"I'll send her in."

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"Arabella.  You may enter the presence of the Amyrlin."

Ara slowly walked forward through the two large doors and into the Amyrlin's Study.  "You have now entered the presence of the Watcher of the Seals, the Flame of Tar Valon, the Amyrlin Seat," droned Sheriam.

Ara curtsied.  "Greetings Mother."

"Greetings Daughter.  Sheriam, you may leave now."

Sullenly Sheriam left Ara and the Amyrlin alone. 

"You told Sheriam you had something important to tell me?"

"Um…yes Mother.  I've found that I have the ability to read minds."

"You what?!?!?!?!"

"Can read minds."

"Prove it to me.  I'm thinking something.  Tell me what it is."

Ara listened for the group of thoughts that belonged to the Amyrlin.  Touching them with her mind, she could hear clearly what the Amyrlin was thinking: ~I can't believe it!  See can't really, can she?  Well, I'd better think of something that she'd never guess if I didn't tell her.  Maybe that I never took the Three Oaths on the Oath Rod, same as Nynaeve, Elayne, Faolain, and Theodrin.  She would never guess that!~

Ara carefully repeated all that the Amyrlin had though.  Ending, she asked, "How is it you never took the Oaths?  Every Aes Sedai has."

"I was raised Aes Sedai at the same time as being raised Amyrlin, in Salidar.  I raised the other four there too.  There was no Oath Rod.  But tonight I have summoned all four of them to take the Oaths, and I will do the same.  But your talent may very well help me.  As soon as you are raised to Accepted, you will scout out the city, using the excuse of learning how to Heal better, and read peoples minds.  You will report anything that is out of the ordinary to me.  And you will be the first raised."

"But what about my friends?  Can they be raised the same day as me?"

"Very well.  Tomorrow then.  I will notify Sheriam.  Now depart, Daughter, and prepare yourself for tomorrow."

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~Lady Arabella Sedai