<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e6/NoviceLight.jpg)</div>Character name: Serain<br/>Position: Novice<br/>Tag: Amyrlin Raine Alvare, Open<br/>Time: Evening, Saven 5th, 990NE<br/>Place: Amyrlin's Office<br/>Warning: n/a<br/><br/>Serain perked up as she heard the Amrylin call her over- her legs felt like they'd hardly hold her up but she forced herself to cross the room, eyeing the marvelous mural briefly as she made her way to the other woman.<br/>She hadn't thought it was possible to feel someone's authority, but she felt like an infant still on her mother's apron strings.<br/>The Novice wasn't sure what she was expecting- a tounge lashing to rival her mother's?- but she was too surprised to speak at the other woman's patient tone.<br/>It seemed like he was getting let in on some sort of secret the way the Amyrlin spoke to her, as if very few ever got this chance. She was probably right about that.<br/><br/>"...Your opinions about me are the right ones, Mother."<br/>Where she had heard that if she was to ever meet the Amyrlin Seat, that the proper title was Mother- she wasn't sure if it was from a story or one of the many people she had met over the past few days had told her, but she hoped it was right.<br/>She looked out at Dragonmount, looking troubled. She wasn't sure how it was known she was strong with the One Power, but it seemed like a compliment and she took it as such.<br/>"I want to become Aes Sedai, Mother. Elizure Sedai, who brought me here...She seemed like the sort of woman I'd like to be. When I asked her, Elizure Sedai told me that she had chosen the Green Ajah and she had devoted her life to fighting the Dark One. That is what I want to do."<br/>When she spoke again she sounded more hesitant.<br/><br/>"I am not sure how to do that, Mother. The White Tower is very different from my home in Saldaea."<br/>Thinking about her home made her eyes well up with tears and she dug her nails into her palm. She wasn't crying! She wasn't going to! She took a deep breath before she dared to keep going.<br/>"The closest thing I can compare it to is being a soldier. I have to be a good soldier."<br/>It was what she'd wanted to do- was this really so different? An army run by women? Aes Sedai fought the Dark One after all.