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Call the Hall to convene? Was the flaming woman not listening to a word she had said? Larindhra tried to interrupt, but Talina's next words drove the thought right out of her head. She'd found a hundred and fifty women strong enough to pass the test in just two years?

 

Wait, that meant ... she did the sums in her head, and her eyes popped as she mouthed the words silently. "A hundred and thirty" ... It was unbelievable. She'd known that the Tower was missing out on a lot of potential initiates due to the idiotic age restriction, but that much?

 

It was entirely due to her preoccupation with the shocking statistics Talina had revealed to her that Larindhra only realised much too late what the dratted woman was up to. Using her name to convene an emergency session of the Hall? The Amyrlin was going to kill her! Which would be preferable to what the Highest was likely to do. She didn't even want to begin to imagine what the other Sitters were going to have to say about this.

 

Which was how Larindhra found herself addressing the full Hall whilst trying to keep the utter fury she was feeling from showing on her face. She couldn't let the Hall know that this was not her own idea - she would lose face completely! But someone was going to pay for this ... oh yes she was. Her face was serene, but her eyes cast daggers at Talina.

 

 

Larindhra Reyne

The Other Cranky Old Biddy

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I have replied Elgs, i added a break for thought in the proceedings of the Hall, perhaps when they re-convene the next day the current MoN has passed away suddenly over night and we kill 2 birds with one stone in getting the bill passed and Lari gets her revenge by confining Talina to the Tower as MoN. <inset evil laugh here> LOL

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Just had an idea: what if the old MoN was very much pro the idea, and the Black Ajah (obviously NOT wanting more Aes Sedai in the Tower) panicked and killed her in the night, in the hope that it would put an end to the story?

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The following evening:

 

Larindhra sat facing the Mistress of Novices' desk. Wrapped in her own thoughts, she paid no attention to the woman pacing up and down, with the occasional glare thrown her way. She experienced a vague sense of ... discomfort ... at being seated on the wrong side of the desk, so to speak, but her overwhelming emotion was one of shame. Shame that she'd used the death of woman who, whilst not exactly a bosom friend, had been a respected colleague at the very least, to further her own plans.

 

Not even the knowledge that it had been the woman's last wish, a fact she'd used cold-bloodedly to manipulate the Hall, could lessen her shame. For at that moment she had been driven not by an ideal, but by petty pique. She raised her eyes to the woman on the other side of the desk, then lowered them again to stare unseeing at the tea growing cold in her lap. Pique at being rail-roaded by her friend, and a childish desire to show her how effective Daes Dae'mar could be.

 

She took an absent minded sip of the tea and, grimacing at the cold mouthful, placed the cup on the desk rather more forcefully than needed. With a sigh, she looked the woman fully in the eye at last. "I'm sorry, Talina." Words failed her for a moment, but she forced herself to continue. "I'm sorry that I got you into this position, just because I was peeved at you." Her cheeks flushed. "I am especially sorry that when word of the Mistress of Novices' death reached the Hall, I used it to play the Great Game, instead of mourning her like any decent woman should have."

 

She raised her hand to stop any response and closed her eyes, murmuring a prayer for the soul of a departed sister. Tears shimmered in her eyes as she allowed herself to at last mourn the loss of a woman taken into the mother's last embrace in the prime of her life, in such a ... silly way. Choking to death on a piece of apple skin, for the Light's sake! Her hand raised to dash a tear from her cheek, then froze half way. Apple skin. Slowly the blood drained from her face, and her eyes moved till they locked with Talina's. Her body felt frozen, and she had to force her lips to move. As it was, the words came out in a strangled whisper. "She never ate the skin. Talina, she never ate the skin! She told me so herself, many years ago, when I teased her about being lazy for having someone peel her apples for her. She said she couldn't abide even touching apple skin!"

 

 

Larindhra Reyne

The Other Cranky Old Biddy

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