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! __Moiraine__ POV

[Rafela|Rafela Cindal] and the other sisters begin instructing [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] and [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] on [Aes Sedai] and [Blue Ajah] customs. There is long standing animosity between [Red|Red Ajah] and [Blue|Blue Ajah]. The [Blue Ajah] is also a bit at odds with the [White|White Ajah] and [Yellow|Yellow Ajah] over something in [Altara] a hundred years before.[1] The [Brown Ajah] supports the [White|White Ajah] against the [Blue|Blue Ajah], but supports the [Blue|Blue Ajah] against the [Yellow|Yellow Ajah]. It is far more complicated that ''Daes Dae'mar''. [Lelaine|Lelaine Akashi], [Natasia|natasia] and [Anaiya] teach them weaves restricted to [Aes Sedai] such as bonding a [Warder|Warders] and secret weaves known only to the [Blue Ajah]. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] has her own secret weave that she learned on her own.[2] They also learn the method of concentration to ignore heat and cold. The turning of the year and the [Feast of Lights|../main/calendar] arrive. All rooms of the [White Tower] are brightly lit. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] receives invitations from two dozen [Cairhienin|Cairhien (Country)] Houses, but she burns them all. [Tamore|tamore_alkohima] delivers the first dresses on the first day of the [Feast of Lights|../main/calendar]. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] grows more and more frustrated working for [Cetalia|cetalia]. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]'s time doing paperwork for distributing the bounty. The day after the [Feast of Lights|../main/calendar] [Ellid|Ellid Abareim] tests for the shawl, but she never returns from the [oval ring]. [Elaida|Elaida do Avriny aRoihan] returns to [Andor]. She is as strong as they will eventually become, equal to [Lelaine|Lelaine Akashi]. [Lelaine|Lelaine Akashi] and [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] get along well while [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Anaiya] become friends. They also resume their [Accepted] friendship with [Leane|Leane Sharif] and also with [Adine Canford|../characters/a/adine_canford]. One by one, [Meilyn|Meilyn Arganya], [Kerene|Kerene Nagashi], [Aisha|Aisha Raveneos], [Ludice|Ludice Daneen] and [Valera|Valera Gorovni] leave the [White Tower] to begin their hunt. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] develops on interest in her job.[3] [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] manage to bake pies, but they make [ Aeldra|../characters/a/aeldra_najaf] sick much to [Kairen|Kairen Stang] and [Anaiya]'s amusement. A week after [Ellid|Ellid Abareim], on [High Chasaline|../main/calendar], [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] is tested and passes. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] is pleased when she manages the sixth kiss; [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] is a very good cook. [High Chasaline|../main/calendar] is the [Day of Reflection|../main/calendar] in [Cairhien|Cairhien (City)]. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] wants to include [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] in their secret, but [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] refuses because she is such a gossip.[4] Three days later [Ryma Galfrey|../characters/r/ryma] enters the dining hall at breakfast. Weaving [Air|One Power] and [Fire|One Power] to amplify her voice, she announces that [Tamra|Tamra Ospenya] died in her sleep.[5]
[Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred]'s first thought is how to take advantage then she regrets it. As personal penance, she wears a very light, inappropriate dress to the funeral to humiliate herself. The next day [Sierin Vayu] of the [Gray Ajah] is raised to the [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai] and she starts her rule with an iron hand. All male clerks are dismissed from the [White Tower]. Three sisters are exiled for a year and two are birched. Breaking tradition, she selects [Red Ajah] sisters, [Amira|amira] as [Mistress of Novices|Aes Sedai] and [Duhara|../../characters/d/duhara] as [Keeper of the Chronicles|Aes Sedai]. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] goes to [Sierin|sierin_vayu] asking to be relieved of the bounty duty. [Sierin|sierin_vayu] agrees, but she commands [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] to stay in [Tar Valon] until she is needed. At this, [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] makes up her mind to leave. She says goodbye to [Siuan|Siuan Sanche]. She shared a rough itinerary so [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] can find her if needed. She then goes out for a "ride." [Kairen|Kairen Stang], [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] and [Eadyth] note her departure, but she tells them she does not plan to cross a bridge. She rides [Arrow] to her bank and picks up letters-of-rights and coin from Mistress [Dormaile|ilain_dormaile]. Guards accompany her to the seamstress where she picks up her dresses from [Tamore|tamore_alkohima]. She then heads to [Northharbor|Tar Valon] and finds a rivership, the ''[Bluewing]''. Captain [Carney|carney] tells her it is the fastest ship on the river. As they leave the dock, [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] sees [Gorthanes|ries_gorthanes] talking to the harbormistress and looking at her ship. She has set off on the grandest adventure ever.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] No idea what this might be.
\\[#2] Eavesdropping ([TEotW,Ch53]) Through the books, though, we learn that these "secret" weaves are often not so secret.
\\[#3] She will eventually take over the job from [Cetalia|cetalia] until she is raised to the [Amyrlin Seat|Aes Sedai].
\\[#4] [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar]'s true loyalties come into question, so this may have been a very lucky move. ([TDR,Ch25], [TGS,Ch25])
\\[#5] She was questioned and murdered by the [Black Ajah]. There is no evidence that [Ryma|Ryma Galfrey] was involved or that she is saying anything but what she believes to be the truth. Still it is coincidental that [Chesmal|Chesmal Emry] will announce the death of [Meilyn|Meilyn Arganya]. ([NS,Ch18])
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