Changes in Time
A/N...I read New Spring the Novel, so that's where I got this from, k? Disclaimer: Don't own WOT or New Spring the Novel
Chapter 4: Testing-Test one-part 1
Egwene, who had changed, was now following the Mistress of Novices down narrow staircase that spiraled deep into the rock beneath the tower. She kept silent. She had to. That was ritual.
She was lead to the lowest level and watched as Mayana channeled flows of air to swing open the doors that they had stopped at.
She stared at a great oval ring, narrow at top and bottom, the rounded rim thicker than her arm, centered beneath the dome. It was over a span high and maybe a pace across at the widest and it glittered silver, gold, green, blue or swirls of all of them. It was a ter'angreal which she would be tested in.
"Attend," Mayana said formally to the other Aes Sedai in the chamber, one for each Ajah, with their shawls over their shoulders.
"For what reason have you been soummoned here?" Mayana asked.
"To be tried." Egwene said with calm in her voice. Light. I wish the other two could have shown me off. Well, then, I'll have to get back to them. I will pass.
"For what reason should you be tried?"
"So that I may learn whether I am worthy."
"For what would you be fournd worthy?"
"To wear the shawl." And with that, she began to undress again so that she could test clad in the Light.
"Therefore I will instruct you," Mayana went on. "You will see this sign upon the ground." She channeled and drew a six pointed star in the air, two overlapping triangles written for an instant in fire.
One of the sisters behind her, Nayta, a yellow, touched her back of her head with a weave. "Remember what must be remembered."
"When you see that sign, you will go to it immediately at a steady pace, neither hurrying no hanging back, d only then may you embrace the Power. The weaving required must begin immediately, and you may not leave that sign until it is completed.
"Remember what must be remembered."
"When the weave is complete, you will see that sign again, marking the way you must go, again at a steady apace, without hesitation."
"Remember what must be remembered."
"One hundred times y9ou will weave, in the order you have been given, and in perfect composure."
"Remember what must be remembered."
All of the sisters moved away, save Mayana, and formed a circle around the ter'angreal. They knelt on the stone floor and the channeled, the speed of the ter'angreal increasing, and channeled each of the five powers, concentrating on their task.
Egwene walked forward to the circle at a normal pace, and walked through, almost shivering, almost turning to say she didn't want to continue. But, she stepped through the ring anyways.
Nynaeve woke to Elayne shaking her.
"Where's Egwene?"
"I think, she's getting tested..." Nynaeve said slowly.
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A/N...I read New Spring the Novel, so that's where I got this from, k? Disclaimer: Don't own WOT or New Spring the Novel
Chapter 4: Testing-Test one-part 1
Egwene, who had changed, was now following the Mistress of Novices down narrow staircase that spiraled deep into the rock beneath the tower. She kept silent. She had to. That was ritual.
She was lead to the lowest level and watched as Mayana channeled flows of air to swing open the doors that they had stopped at.
She stared at a great oval ring, narrow at top and bottom, the rounded rim thicker than her arm, centered beneath the dome. It was over a span high and maybe a pace across at the widest and it glittered silver, gold, green, blue or swirls of all of them. It was a ter'angreal which she would be tested in.
"Attend," Mayana said formally to the other Aes Sedai in the chamber, one for each Ajah, with their shawls over their shoulders.
"For what reason have you been soummoned here?" Mayana asked.
"To be tried." Egwene said with calm in her voice. Light. I wish the other two could have shown me off. Well, then, I'll have to get back to them. I will pass.
"For what reason should you be tried?"
"So that I may learn whether I am worthy."
"For what would you be fournd worthy?"
"To wear the shawl." And with that, she began to undress again so that she could test clad in the Light.
"Therefore I will instruct you," Mayana went on. "You will see this sign upon the ground." She channeled and drew a six pointed star in the air, two overlapping triangles written for an instant in fire.
One of the sisters behind her, Nayta, a yellow, touched her back of her head with a weave. "Remember what must be remembered."
"When you see that sign, you will go to it immediately at a steady pace, neither hurrying no hanging back, d only then may you embrace the Power. The weaving required must begin immediately, and you may not leave that sign until it is completed.
"Remember what must be remembered."
"When the weave is complete, you will see that sign again, marking the way you must go, again at a steady apace, without hesitation."
"Remember what must be remembered."
"One hundred times y9ou will weave, in the order you have been given, and in perfect composure."
"Remember what must be remembered."
All of the sisters moved away, save Mayana, and formed a circle around the ter'angreal. They knelt on the stone floor and the channeled, the speed of the ter'angreal increasing, and channeled each of the five powers, concentrating on their task.
Egwene walked forward to the circle at a normal pace, and walked through, almost shivering, almost turning to say she didn't want to continue. But, she stepped through the ring anyways.
Nynaeve woke to Elayne shaking her.
"Where's Egwene?"
"I think, she's getting tested..." Nynaeve said slowly.
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