With cheeks filled to the brim with delicious food, making her look something like a chipmunk hoarding for winter, Miya nodded.  "MYes MAes Se... MErr... MRory."   Swallowing Miya broke into a full face grin and blushed brightly at her sudden slip in manners.

Giggling she muttered an appology.  "This is the first time in days though that I've eatten food that had more food in it than salt.  I somehow doubt I'll enjoy traveling too much if I have to eat like that every time I do it."

Taking a drink from the milk that had been brought with her dinner she savored the flavors of dinner and the warm filling sensation that was growing in her belly as Rory went on for a bit.  The Green Sister definately seemed nice enough.  But something nagged at her, something about the woman's face... Miya had spent the whole meal trying to guess how old she was and nothing was coming to mind.  It was frightening really. 

"ahem..."  She interupted.  "I'm sorry but, I guess I didn't catch what the Mistress of Novices must have said about how long exactly it takes to become an Aes Sedai.  Maybe you could fill me in?  I saw a lot of girls in these white dresses and most of them looked older than me and a few girls wore dresses like this but with rainbows on the sleeves and hem... and I'd say they were older still.  Are we talking about a few years... or .." She swallowed as trepidation rose in her eyes.

"...Longer?"

I've got a cold actually,  :-\ ... but my first doctor's appoointment is in just a few hours so I'm really excited today.  Happily I didn't have a lot of family to visit during the holidays so I suppose that helped a ton.  That, and I didn't have a huge dinner to sit there for me to be bemoaning that I couldn't eat.  My hubby and I had a nice simple chicken and dumpling soup. 

Hope your holidays went as smoothly!

oc:  Merry Christmas Everyone!  *hugs*  Additionally, Sial, seems the MON assigned you and me to be roomies.  If you aren't interested we can rp that it got changed for some reason or we're only just now meeting because of how little we're in the room at the same time... you know, you knew you had a roomie but she was in late and up before you or something.  Just message me and let me know what you wanna roll with.

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Miya couldn't help but smiling so big that it hurt. "This is gonna be great!  Okay, everyone who wants to play let's go over to that corner and have a seat." 

Leading the way Miya put her back to the corner so she could lean there comfortably.  She was sure that Rory Sedai would love this wine, it really was a shame she'd be obligated to bust up this little get together.  After all, Rory would have a blast!

"First we need a deterant for people wanting to skip out on what they pick.  I know the ideas can be kind of twisted but they are suppose to scare us from wanting to just avoid doing what we first pick.  It could be anything like licking the floor to ..." she thought for a moment and then laughed as she finished, "going to the window down the hall to show your full moon to the warder's yard!"

As she finished laughing, "Any suggestions?"

ooc:  Merry Christmas James & Sam!

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Wow, this was everything she dreamed it would be!  Rory Sedai was gonna be the best mentor ever!  Miya was all but bouncing out of her chair now.  "LIGHT WOULD I EVER!  I haven't eatten since yesterday on the ship.  And while this ale is growing on me I'm not sure that it wouldn't go down easier on my stomach if I didn't have something to help ease it's travel a bit."

Taking another drink she considered carefully whether or not she should ask her next question.  It might have been taken as rude but, they were getting on quite well so maybe it would be okay.  "I hope you don't think me rude for asking, it's just that I've never heard an accent like yours before... where did you come from before you were a novice?  Was it one of the southern lands or were you one of those exotic women who live without the rule of men on boats like I heard about in the gleeman's stories?"

That was it.  Apparently she was going to train here and then, in a whirlwind it seemed, she was with another woman who had the thickest most strange accent that had EVER assulted her ears.  Light, who talks like that!?!

Now, if the smoking Aes Sedai hadn't been strange enough for her, the next one almost floored her.  This one, the Light take her, apparently liked to drink!  Her mother would be pitching a fit to see her daughter in a place like this... with Aes Sedai or not!  Of course, this made Miya smile.  What made her smile larger still was watching as the Aes Sedai ordered TWO, not one, ales.  Of course there had to be only one answer for this mystery then...

"You must be of the Green Ajah, aren't you?!?" Miya chirped brightly, pulling an ale to herself.  She'd never had ale but one certainly couldn't argue with an Aes Sedai or be impolite.  Drinking from it carefully, she took just a sip of the bitter tasting substance and then pulled back wiping the foam off her upper lip across her sleeve.

"I've heard some amazing stories about all the Aes Sedai of the Green Shawl... my Papa says he even knows one or two who pass through the capitol from time to time when he's there."

"Um... so, as for what I'm leaving behind, not much.  Don't get me wrong I'll miss Papa, Mama, and my younger brother while I'm away but I'll study hard and do my best to get home just as soon as I can.  I'm sure there will be a lot I can do there if I'm good enough with..."   she lowered her voice trying to be polite, "... the Power."

Sipping at the drink again, Miya decided it was definately an aquired taste that she'd have to try to adapt to quickly so not to be insulting.  This time the drink she took was a bit larger, more like the Aes Sedai was doing.

"I grew up on a farm, in the small village of Tiffan's Well of Arafel.  Not much to see up that way really.  I have a few friends there but mostly I spent my days with Mama.  Papa thought it best that I learn the important stuff at home before I set my mind to boys, as he puts it.  Wouldn't ya know it, just when a boy finally asked me to Harvest Festival... I manage to get discovered by Aes Sedai.  Which, I guess is just as well considering the boy wasn't too easy on the eyes and probably didn't know the working end of a horse from the hilt of a blade."  She giggled hoping the Aes Sedai found men's stupidity as funny as she did.  Light but this drink was growing on her!

Taking another drink she went on with a small burp, "Excuse me Aes Se... um..."   Lowering her voice, "Rory." 

With a gentle blush in her cheeks, "As for the Shawl, oh I suppose it would be wonderful really.  When compared to a future of marrying some wool-brained dolt and having a baker's dozen of kids to care for... kicking some Shadow butt sounds pretty nice.  Heck, that's what my brother intends to do.  He wants to fight up along the border once he has the coin for proper training.  Maybe I might join him, if he grows out of being such a childish ninny."

Light it's warm in here.

"I understand there are different jobs Aes Sedai do.  I've heard about Greens who fight Shadowspawn on the border and yellows who heal men but I keep seeing all these other colors around the Tower and town... I take it there are other things you can do as an Aes Sedai?"

"I'm 15 winters."  Miya smiled.  "And no, I haven't been here even a ten-day yet."  Leaning in towards Sial she remarked slyly, "Dark One of a way for me to start out though, not even one free day under my belt and something tells me I'm not ending this night without a sound strapping from that Mistress of Novices!"  She laughed loudly as she pulled back to her up-right position.

"Now, as for those rules though... here's how it goes.  Everyone who is playing decides first upon a consequence for not taking a dare or answering a truth.  It should be something suitably gross or unpleasent so that everyone wants to avoid doing it.  Then we sit down in a circle and we take turns asking each other 'Truth? ...or Dare?'  If the person we ask says 'truth' then that person must answer a question truthfully either about themselves or something else they have knowledge of."

"Now, should the choose dare..."  Miya couldn't hold in her grin.  "...to avoid telling truths that it is, the person is asked to do something dangerous or undesireable under normal circumstances.  Something that would impress or entertain the rest of us.  I once saw a dare where a boy ate a worm, another where a girl ran naked through the town, and yet another where a girl had to do her best impression of a goodwife of our village and that was positively worth a few giggles, let me tell you!"

"Most people choose truth all the time but occasionally choosing dares can spice up an otherwise dull night.  So, is that like the game you know?"

"I'm Miya Kiyoshi."  Miya extended her hand to the new comer who seemed to want to linger by the door.  "So, does anyone know any good party games to play?  I've heard of a few but not sure how well they'd go over here... like..."  She put a finger to her lip and tapped it slowly as she thought to herself.

"Truth or Dare... or I Never.  Both are games that are great for when you don't know people very well.  Always helps break the ice and shows you who has the most in common with you or who you wanna spend more time around.  Of course those are just games I've heard of back home.  I bet there are others from all the places you're from..."  She lookeda round to all the girls in the area wondering who among them might have a new and interesting distraction for her to learn.

Miya smiled as the woman gave her a compliment.  It was more than those two sisters in Arafel had done for her.  They seemed to think talking to her father like she wasn't there was a way to be appriciated... well, she couldn't do much for that now.  At least here at the Tower they seemed a touch more friendly, after all, smoking... jokes... compliments & now she got to tell a story?!?  Yes, she was sure she would like being here now.

Miya visually relaxed and shifted in her chair to be a touch more comfortable.  She drew breath and prepared herself to tell the story of her journey. 

"I'm fifteen winters Aes Sedai, born in foaling season of that year.  Papa always likes to say that I came into the world harder and louder than any foal he's helped to turn though."  She let the smile touch her eyes this time.

"As to how I ended up here, well... that's a bit of a story.  You see it all started a few weeks ago when Paul Guileti came to me about a gopher.  See, back home I am known for my ability to capture small and annoying animals for folks... gettin' them out of their houses and what have you."

"Well, Paul didn't need me to get rid of the gopher so much as he needed one.  See, Paul has been making eyes at Elsbeth Bulsworth for the last two summers and he finally got up the metal to ask her to the feast day dance this year.  Elsbeth said she'd go with him but on the night of the dance she spent all evening with Tommi Burgeuss."  Miya shook her head with the memory of it all.  What a terrible night that had been!

"So he wanted to get her back for it and the gopher was gonna be the tool of his retribution, problem was that Paul is about as good with catching gophers as I am at reading... that is to say he can't catch them at all."

"Anyway, so after I caught the thing... a terrible trouble I admit, I sent my younger brother to let him know that I got it.  Now, apparently Paul didn't realize I couldn't read because instead of just telling my little brother where I was suppose to take the gopher, he wrote it down on parchment scraps.  Since neither me nor my brother could read a bit of the scribbles he had on there, and I sure couldn't ask my parents for help, we decided to try to find it on our own.  After all I knew that Elsbeth's mother was a short little fat grumpy woman, and their house was just out in the woods not too far from us.  How hard could that be to find, right?"

"Well my brother with our family dog and me with the gopher in a bag, we walked out into the woods and wandered around for a bit.  Eventually we came upon this hut with this fat grumpy looking woman outside in the garden.  We figured we'd found the place, especially since Barkley ... he's our dog... couldn't stop growling."

"So I snuck up to the open window and tossed in the gopher.  Well, wouldn't ya know it that's when the all Shadows broke loose!  There was screaming inside and that gopher squeeling and chittering like mad... dishes were falling and being broken... something caught fire I think and then when I figured I couldn't laugh any harder, Barkley got away from my brother and leapt into the window too!"

Miya smirked a bit despite the memory of her punishment.  "Oh what a sight that was, two ladies, the fat one and another... ran out the front door like hens fleeing a fox.  Screaming and cussin' and confused as much as a woman can be!  The fat one she threw up her arms and was begging the Light for mercy, seems the gopher had climbed up her skirts, and the other was running from the dog hollaring something about the other's ...ahem... bloody experiments."

She couldn't help but laugh at the memory of it all.  It was wonderfully amusing.  "Of course, I didn't think they'd be seriously hurt, Barkley had never bit anyone before and when he bit that poor tall woman I nearly fainted!  It was then something happened that made me stop rolling on the ground with laughter... my dog flew up into the air."

Miya looked at the floor and lowered her voice a touch, becoming quite serious.  "Yea... my luck you see, the two women later informed me they were in sabatical from the White Tower in order to do some private research."  She nodded to herself regretfully.

"My brother and I got dragged the whole way home by our ears.  I'm still not sure what was worse, my Papa whipping us or listening to them go on and on about what terrible children we'd been.  Why it wasn't until one of them tried to hit Barkley with a stick and I got so mad that my vision blurred and my headache returned, that they even lowered their tones and stopped screaming at me."

Looking up to the Mistress of Novices she shrugged, "Go figure.  Maybe they just didn't like seeing a girl in pain?  Well, they took me home and they talked alone with my father for a few hours and by the time they left I found out that I might have some talent to use ... you know, the Power.  The demanded my father send me straight away to the White Tower and just as soon as I got a new dress and my father pulled together some coin for a donation to the Tower, that's just what I did."

She sighed with true sadness, "I'm afraid, Aes Sedai, that someone near the docks took my coin while I was getting sick from the boat ride.  It was quite a bit too.  My Papa would be most disappointed.  I hope that my loss of the coin doesn't reflect too badly upon my request to study here?"

Okay,

Arie asked me to dig through my old stuff to find my red ajah class... I did find it but it definately needs a pick-me-up and so I'm re-writing it from the ground up.  I have an outline of the lessons up on the website now, if you're feeling spunky and wanna rp this asap, let me know and I'll put a rush on getting it done.  Otherwise expect it in days to come depending on my schedule.

http://redajah.wordpress.com/red-ajah-class/

*hugs*

Eek, not sure this matches or not with what I slapped on the website, I should have checked here first.  Compare notes?  Between the two of us I'm sure we got stuff the other missed maybe?

*Huggles*

I'm giving Arie a hand updating stuff as I have the old website information and can simply cut and paste most of it in.  However, a lot of you have information that will need to be updated or put in as I don't know you yet!

Please surf over to our website at:  http://redajah.wordpress.com/

Take a look around, read your bio and the ajah history and, heck, all of it.  If you need something added... something updated ... whatever, just reply here and let us know.  Arie or me will hop on it as time allows *OR* you can talk to Arie about getting registered with the site so you can help update too!

*hugs*

*WEG*  ;D

Oh maybe I could help you out with this... maybe.  When can I catch you online, skype still?

*hugs Perine my former 'sorta' mentee*

Yes, for those who haven't figured me out yet I'll reveal to my former ajah sisters that this is Telcia.  I'm playing a new novice too and I'm not sure I'll go red yet but there is a definite chance of it (as I'm here on the super secret cherry-berry board)

Anyway don't go yelling my identity from the roof tops or anything, like I said earlier I'm looking to play a novice for a while and just kinda fall back into an rp groove again if it's possible.  Maybe after a while I'll pick Telcia up again but since she's with the Kin, I don't think you guys will be seeing too much of her either way.

For now, get to know my new character Miya and don't be scared to say hi... least of all you Perine.  I've missed you sooooo much!

*hugggles*

Miya was scared to death of the Aes Sedai who entered and seemed so very short with her words; like she knew already everything she might have to say and disapproved already.  However, despite this fear, watching an Aes Sedai grab for a pipe almost caused her to giggle out loud.  Who knew they smoked!?!

Then the fish upside her head... a joke?  She had come prepared with tales of her family, stories of home, songs even but NOT a joke.  Light!  Why didn't those two sisters tell her she'd need a joke.

Think Miya, think...

"Um..."  Her voice trembled ever so slightly.  "OH yes!"  She said far too excitedly, remembering the woman asked for her name first, thusly giving her a few extra seconds to think.  "My name.  I have a name of course, my name is Miya Kiyoshi and I'm from the village of Tifan's Well in the nation of Arafel."  She nodded in self satisfaction only to let her smile fall a bit when she couldn't think of a joke.  She knew this was dire, her whole future might just depend on making the woman laugh.

Miya rubbed her hands together a moment and then whispered to herself, "... a joke..."  Suddenly one came to mind.  "Okay here goes, um... The Lord Captain Commander of the Whitecloaks, a Trolloc, and the Amyrlin Seat,"  Light she hoped that telling a joke about the Amyrlin wasn't in bad taste.  Again her voice trembled as she continued.

"... find themselves all stuck on the same island.  There they find a magic object and from it comes a wishgranter.  He tells them that they each can have one wish.  The Whitecloak asks that he and all those who hate Aes Sedai could live in a world without them... and boom, he and all the Whitecloaks disappear.  So then the, um, Trolloc he asks that he and all his fellow shadowspawn could all rule over the world they lived in without question and poof... they were gone somewhere to rule.  And they uh... Amyrlin... she... she stood there looking thoughtful."  She paused daring to look up at the Mistress of Novices only a second to see how mad she was and then back down again.

"The wishgranter he asks her... 'well, what do you want?'  And the Amyrlin, um she... she says 'well all the Whitecloaks are gone?'  The wishgranter says 'yep'  and then she says 'and the Shadowspawn are gone too?'  The wishgranter says 'yes'  ... and she says 'Well, I guess I'll have some tea then."

Miya looked up meekly and smiled as much as she could force herself to.  Did she think the joke was funny?  Did she get it even?  Tensing she waited on pins and needles to see the woman's reaction.

Just wanted to post here as I'm currently without a roomate (have one person I'm talking to but we're undecided yet) and I'm hoping to make some friends and rivals too!  Obviously rivalries can change to friendships later but, if they don't it will be good for our rp as full Sisters.  After all, may Sisters have conflicts and not all of them are along ajah lines.

If you're a fairly active player and you're looking for someone who is like-wise, please consider replying here.  I'd love to exchange information and talk about possible ideas.  I'm also contemplating a little novice mischief circle of 3-5 novices who are notorious friends.  It will take some working out but I think it could really add to our rp.

I'm not in a rush to be raised so, that might be something else to consider.  If you're gunning for AS I may not be with you right away but that isn't a deal breaker for being involved.  Just let me know up front.

Anyway I'm on my way out the door but I look forward to getting replies so... yea... talk to you all soon!

*hugs*

"Can I help you?"  The voice was from a girl in a rainbow trimmed white wool dress.  Miya smiled meekly, unsure who this young woman was other than to guess that she surely wasn't a full Sister as surely they wouldn't dress with all the colors on their dresses.  She'd heard stories about the fiery green ajah who fought in the blight and of the yellows who healed the good men of the Light ... but there would be no point to being called a color if you had all of them painted on you.  Perhaps she was in training here as well!

"I'm Miya Kiyoshi, may the Light bless and keep you,"  After her bright greeting she lowered her voice, not wanting to sound as if she was bragging in front of the other people who were standing about.  "I was sent here to receive testing."

The girl in the banded dress only took a moment before nodding and penned her name down on a pad.  "This way."  The girl turned so quickly Miya almost didn't catch what she'd instructed.  It was strange, first the girl seemed friendly but now she was almost frozen in her way of looking.  Had she done something to offend the girl in the banded dress?  Perhaps there was some custom for girls in banded dresses that she wasn't informed about?

She followed the girl right through the main doors which seemed large enough to take two wagons side by side through.  On each of the massive doors there was a solid shape, a tear drop made of the purest white.  If Miya had a moment later, she told herself, she would have to stop and touch them just to know how they felt under her (now trembling) finger tips.

Stepping into the great foyer she crossed colorful floor tiles swirled together, a rainbow just like on the girl's hem, and at their center lay the self-same teardrop shape.  Stepping on the colors and the symbol felt wrong, somehow, but the girl in the banded colors never hesitated.  Miya, however did, long enough to notice the colors drifting down from above her like rain.

Painted glass depicted the same rainbow and tear symbol above the door and the warm sun through the colors felt as though the very iconagraphy of this legendary place was giving her a reassuring hug.

Maybe, she considered quietly, things aren't going so badly after all. 

It was this way all down the halls and the stairways, gaping and staring at every painting and rug like it was an Aes Sedai itself so much so that she almost stepped on what was surely a serving girl dressed in all white mopping the floor on her knees. 

She was sure she'd never find the main enterance again when the girl in the banded dress stopped outside of a formidable looking wooden door.  A small sign there had words of some sort on it but sadly she had no clue what it might have said. 

"Go inside and sit down, the Mistress of Novices will see you in a moment."

Miya nodded and thanked the girl (well the girl's back anyway) then turned the knob on the door.  Stepping inside she found a seat and began to quietly await this Mistress woman.

Miya's eyes nearly bulged in spite of themselves.  Light even in novice rags they look pretty, flaming Domani...  Swallowing back her thoughts she forced a smile and then laughed at how silly she was being.  Surely the girl hadn't come here looking to seduce men!  Sometimes, Miya told herself, she could be completely unreasonable & wool-headed.

"Of course you can join us."  She extended her well-worn hand to the beautiful girl.  "I'm Miya Kiyoshi of Arafel and these are my two newest friends; Melianna of Arafel who sadly was roped into this most prestigious insitution bereft of her, no doubt, beloved horse.  Over here,"  She looked at the tipsy Saldean and laughed again.

"Well this is Kalinde whom I believe is from Saldea if I'm not mistaken.  I'm trying to teach her a traditional Arafellin dance but Melianna's dance, I fear, looks a bit more fun."  Miya motioned to her fellow Arafellin's swiveling hips.

"I think I'm going to give it a try but I doubt I'll master how you make your tummy do that ... that ... um... wavey thing it does.  Honestly Melianna, I'm surprised it doesn't make you ill but it does look very fun."

Turning back to the Domani girl, "I'm sorry... look at me prattling on like a hen in a coup, what did you say your name was?"

Name:   Miya Kiyoshi

Novice Quiz: Returning Div Member

Arrival/Meet Mentor: http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,24992.0.html (posted 7 times personally)

Freeday:

One OP Related RP:

Chore RP: 

Homesickness: http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,25597.0.html (posted 5 times personally)

Three Arches:

I have NO CLUE what Ajah to choose for Miya yet so I'm open to being seduced to your side of the force... er ... tower.  :)

(( oc:  Sorry I should have been more specific.  LOL.  I was talking to you so all good! ))

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As soon as Melianna said she was from Arafel as well, Miya's face split into a huge smile.  "I'm from Arafel too!"  She couldn't keep the excitement from her voice.  "Tifan's Well specifically... we'll outside it in the countryside a little actually, not that it's much of a village to look at.  It's pretty tiny really.  Light but it's good to find someone else from Arafel here!  I was beginning to think..." 

But Miya didn't get a chance to finish her sentence before some girl, Saldean by the look of her nose, came rushing up to her and Melianna.  "How about some dancing girls?"  Miya, a lover of stories, knew enough about Saldeans and dancing to be glad that there were no boys around... especially since the girl before her seemed a little tipsy already.

Just as she was about to object however, the Saldean grabbed her and Melianna's arms and pulled with all her might literally dragging them up onto the dance area.  Miya's eyes shot bolt wide with shock at first, looking to Melianna for some sort of reaction.

"I'm Kalinde Yarrah, from Saldea. And I have no idea how to dance." Miya couldn't help but laugh with Kalinde even as the girl trampled her toes.  Boy was she right, she couldn't dance!  The light alone knew why she'd pulled Melianna and she to the dance floor; perhaps it was to help hide her own inability.

"Dancing is easy... here, copy me."  Miya began a traditional Arafellin feast day dance and hummed to the song in a surprisingly angelic tone. 

"How long have you been in the tower?" 

"I haven't even seen my first free day yet, if that let's you know how new I am."  Miya smiled sheepishly ending her humming.  "I figure if my pa-pa knew I was working on my first whipping before I even earned my first day of fun he'd make the Mistress of Novoices blush with the pushishment he'd give me.  I wouldn't sit for a week, I promise you that!" 

Realizing she hadn't introduced herself to Kalinde yet she quickly extended a hand to her, "I'm Miya Kiyoshi... from Arafel, by the way and this here is my new friend Melianna, she's from Arafel too!"

Once Melianna had replied to the question about how long she'd been in the tower, Miya piped up again.  "Hey, did either of you get to bring a horse with you when you came or did you both travel by boat too?"

Miya looked to the girl near her, she seemed quite content to do the same thing as she was ... eat and drink first and then worry about other things later.  Conspiritorially she leaned over to her wall-flower friend and spoke softly, "We're going to be in terrible trouble for this,"  She swallowed a bit more wine.  "...you know that right?"  She giggled the last part before extending her hand to the other girl.

"I'm Miya Kiyoshi.  What's your name?"

Miya went over the instructions again in her head for what could probably have been the 100th time.  It wasn't that she was daft, far from it, but the bloody place was huge and who knew when one of the Sisters would come strolling along on some manner of patrol.  The rules had been made QUITE clear to her and this was most definately a violation of them.

Still... after little successes with the One Power, the homesickness that she hated to admit was getting to her, and the endless hours of chores and other boring work... well, even a borderlander had her breaking points.  Surely it would be okay to bend the rules a little bit, just this once? 

Miya grinned a wicked grin as she approached the door she was instructed to come to.  Rapping on the wood as loudly as she dare to in these wee hours of the night, she waited on pins for the door to slide open cautiously.  Once it did she nearly yelped at how quickly she as pulled inside, the shock only washing away at the beautiful sight of sweets, brandy-wine, and other girls not scrubbing floors or something equally mundane.

"Wow..."  She breathed.  This had to take a true effort to pull together without the Sisters learning of it.  Of course, when she saw the Accepted, she figured immediately that they must have been the driving force behind this mischief.  Taking a sticky bun and a small shot of brandy-wine she slipped quietly to a corner to enjoy the sights and sounds of a friendly gathering.

Of course she wanted to to talk to someone, but first she'd eat... one must be practical after all... there'd be time to talk later if the event did get broken up by the Sisters & somehow she doubted she could say the same for the sticky buns and wine.  Besides, she was just positive she was the newest novice here and, sadly, she couldn't remember a single person's name!

Well... tonight she'd rectify that, one way or another.

Thank you all for the warm welcomes and well wishes for my baby.

Now to those who would like to seek me out for roomie goodness and want to rp with me... here's my arrival thread.

http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,24992.0.html

Can't wait for your reply!

*hugs*

Well, doesn't that just fit my day?  The petite blonde pulled herself up off the curb and attempted to dust herself off to the sound of a concerned voice nearby.  This was the third item in a list of small unceremonious events that had occured since the boat had docked in the port of Tar Valon.

Sure, she had been quite taken with the sight of the great White Towers and the bustling city that was so much more full that she could have dreamed it might be... but that didn't stop her from sicking up the moment she stepped off the boat. 

Happily, she noted to herself, she didn't get any on her best feast day dress which she'd changed into upon the first sight of the great island city.  Of course... now that she'd seen all the other dresses in the city, she felt a bit less confident about her looks.  Even her mother's best stitching and the expensive fabric that her father had bought for her trip paled beside the fancy gowns she saw some of the women wearing.

Oh, but dresses weren't the second thing on her list to break her spirit a bit... no that would be the purse full of coins that she had stolen from her waist while she was being ill.  Some wool-brained southerner had the audacity to take advantage of a lone young woman while she was being ill in the very shadow of the White Tower!  Just as well though ... those coins, which her father asked be made as a donation to the Sisters for their many causes and in thanks for their welcome of his only daughter, were probably for her trip home if needed. 

Miya Kiyoshi, channeler or not, had NO intention of leaving Tar Valon empty handed.  NO SIR!  Why she'd take up a sword and train to join her brother on the blight border if needed but, she wouldn't go home to just be some simpering meat-head's goodwife.

Of course, it was just as she was thinking that when someone came rushing past and knocked her promptly into the dirty street at the very gates of the White Tower.  Sighing and picking herself up with a bit more outrage than she intended to walk through the gates of her "destiny" with, Miya had to wonder... did every legend start out this way?

My first baby.  I'm nervous about a lot of things surrounding the pregnancy and birthing but once he or she is here... well, it's a bit old hat for me as I am the oldest sibling of a handful of younger ones (ages widely spread out) and I have a lot of experience with newborns (my mom spent a lot of time in the hospital and laid up after her last two.)

Needless to say I got a great hubby with me too.  He's really been a trooper so far and I expect that to continue.  Sometimes I think he's more excited than me.  LOL!  He's desperately hoping for a little girl and while I would love that I keep having dreams it's a boy.  *snickers*

Bah, so long as it's healthy that's all that really matters though.  :)

*hugs*