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! __Moiraine__ POV

[Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] head back to their quarters. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] worries about missing her private classes with %%white [Meilyn|Meilyn Arganya]%% and %%gray [Larelle|Larelle Tarsi]%%. They expect to be tested for the shawl at any time because %%blue [Merean|Merean Redhill]%% told them they were near, so they practice as often as they can. 

Even though [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] is noble born and [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] is a fisherman's daughter, [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] is the natural leader of the two. She intends to have adventures and see the world, maybe [Shara] and the lands beyond the [Aryth Ocean]. They both know that %%blue [Gitara|Gitara Moroso]'s%% [Foretelling|Weaves] means the [Prophecies of the Dragon|Karaethon Prophecies] are coming true. The [Dragon Reborn|Rand alThor] will again face the [Dark One|ShaiTan] at [Tarmon Gai'don|Creator] and again break the world. They discuss whether %%amyrlin [Tamra|Tamra Ospenya]'s%% admonition even allows them to talk about it between themselves. 

They reach [Siuan|Siuan Sanche]'s room in the [Accepted] quarters. The two wells of [Accepted] quarters have room for over two hundred, but there are barely more than sixty. The two wells of [novice|novices] quarters have room for four hundred but now house under a hundred. Fewer than twenty of them will test for [Accepted]. The [White Tower] has rooms to house three thousand [Aes Sedai], but only four hundred and twenty-three are in residence with twice that number out in the world.[1] 

[Siuan|Siuan Sanche] [channels|True Source] to light a fire even though it is against the rules. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] feels a tingle.[2] Novices who study together sometimes experience it but with most women it soon goes away. In a lecture %%brown [Akarrin]%% told them they must obey the rules before they learn when they can ignore them. %%red [Elaida|Elaida do Avriny aRoihan]%% made their first year as [novices] miserable. It was even worse the second year after she gained the shawl[3] until she left the [White Tower]. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] begins the practice creating the hundred weaves of the test while [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] tries to distract her. [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] succeeds when she asks [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] what the [Red Ajah] will do about the [Dragon Reborn|Rand alThor]. [Myrelle Berengari], another [Accepted] from [Altara], joins them. 

After more practice, the door opens again and %%red [Tarna Feir]%% joins them. She announces that %%blue [Gitara Moroso]%% has died. She seems uncharacteristically sad and says that [Gitara|Gitara Moroso] was a great woman.[4] The [Amyrlin|Aes Sedai] has declared a freeday for [novices] and has summoned all [Accepted] to the Oval Lecture Hall. They all hurry to the Hall. Other [Accepted] in the Hall include [Aledrin], [Alanna|Alanna Mosvani], [Brendas], [Aisling Noon] and [Zemaille].[5] There are only four [Sea Folk] [Aes Sedai]; two of them quite old.[6] [Verin|Verin Mathwin] told [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] that [TuathaAn] do not try to [channel|True Source]. [Tamra|Tamra Ospenya] arrives and announces that she will offer a hundred gold crowns to any woman who recently gave birth.[7] She is sending the [Accepted] out to conduct a census. [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Siuan|Siuan Sanche] are excited that they will aid in the search for the [Dragon Reborn|Rand alThor].
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] Compare these numbers to twenty years later when [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] and [Egwene|Egwene alVere] arrive at the [White Tower]. ([TGH,Ch18]) There are only forty [novices] of whom only eight or nine are expected to become [Accepted].
\\[#2] The same tingle she felt in [NS,Ch2], it is apparently unique between [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Siuan|Siuan Sanche]. Most [Aes Sedai] can sense other women channeling but do not feel a physical sensation. It never goes away, as [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] still feels it in [TGH,Ch4]. No idea if there is any significance to it.
\\[#3] Placing [Elaida|Elaida do Avriny aRoihan] five years ahead of [Moiraine|Moiraine Damodred] and [Siuan|Siuan Sanche].
\\[#4] %%red [Tarna|Tarna Feir]%% never shows emotion. Was there something between her and %%blue [Gitara|Gitara Moroso]%%?
\\[#5] By inference, all the other known [Accepted] were there: [Atuan|atuan], [Carlinya], [Coladara], [Desandre], [Edesina|Edesina Azzedin], [Ellid|Ellid Abareim], [Katerine|Katerine Alruddin], [Meidani], [Myrelle|Myrelle Berengari], [Pritalle|Pritalle Nerbaijan], [Sarene|Sarene Nemdahl], [Sheriam|Sheriam Bayanar] and [Temaile|Temaile Kinderode].
\\[#6] The two younger ones would be [Aiden] and [Nyein]. As there are only three [Sea Folk] [Aes Sedai] including [Zemaille] in 999 NE, the two older ones died or retired in the interim.
\\[#7] Where does all this money come from? The [Aes Sedai] get their money the same way as most nobility, income from property such as estates and tariffs, levies and tributes.
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