Event: Nata and Owen confront Raemira about an Accepted discovering and using a Talent which is otherwise Sealed to the Flame.
Cast:
Raemira - Amyrlin Seat
Nata - Yellow Sedai
Owen - Master of Arms
Location: Amyrlin's Office: White Tower, Tar Valon
Micana peeks in quietly. "Mother, Nata and Owen are here for their appointment. You are ready for them?"
Raemira looks up from her desk as Micana enters, nodding briefly, "Aye, Micana, I am. Please show them in."
Nata curtseys as she looks through the open doorway behind Micana, then advances as she hears Raemira speak. Her soft voice greets. "Good day, Mother."
Micana nods as she moves to the side and silently takes her usual place at the side of Raemira's desk, ink, quill, paper ready if needed.
Owen enters last of all behind Nata. He sweeps into a deep bow of respect before rising and taking up a place behind Nata and out of the way. Owen remains silent untill he is asked to speak.
Raemira nods her head just briefly to Nata, tilting her head to the side a bit, "Good afternoon Nata." Raemira answers, rising from her chair to regard the Yellow and her Gaidin, "Owen Gaidin. Please, come in and be seated."
Nata smooths her skirt as she moves forward into the room and finds a chair where she can easily see both Mother and Keeper. She dips her head again in a respectful nod as she waits for Owen to join the grouping. "thank you for making time to see us Mother. A situation has arisen which I thought needed to be brought to your attention. A message was sent to you as soon as I discovered the situation and I imposed silence on those I could locate, however, I feel it may need a stronger...persuasion... than mine.
Owen moves inward with Nata, "Thank you Mother and good day to you as well." He remains standing just behind and to the right of Nata's chair resting on hand on the back of the chair casually. As Nata begins to speak his attention is drawn towards her.
Raemira furrows her brow briefly, "It has been sometime since I've received your missive. Can you please refresh my mind?"
Nata says "Sinna stepped into my room without knocking. She was leaning against the door to bump it with her elbow while her hands were full of books and the door had not caught well. I was, as had been given permission to do, showing my warder how he could reach me if I was away from the tower and he was there, or how the two of us together could communicate with you in a 'secure' manner. He was sealed to secrecy in this. The large mirror I was using, I had time to remove the weaves, but not the one in the small hand mirror. Accepted Sinna showed an odd reaction and in investigating it, discovered some things which were quite distressing."
A small frown touches Raemira's features as she listens. She nods her head every so slightly, folding her hands upon the table before her, "Go on." She commands, more than comments.
Nata says "Mother, I do not trust that Accepted. She is to sly and sneaky, secretive, and disregards rules. She told me she had been experimenting and discovered she could view other places and instead of telling someone, began to experiment on her own. I was told she showed the weave and the effects of it to others without the Creator given sense to know how dangerous what she did was to us all. Not only that but she used the weave to locate a daughter which she told no one here existed to the best of my knowledge and watched her. That is what triggered her rescue mission. That relationship, by the way, is being ...permitted to continue..and the novice and accepted act as mother/daughter, It raises...questions in my mind."
Nata says "The list of those I am aware know are in the note I gave you. Owen might be able to txplain the situation with greater ease than myself."
Raemira's eyes widen at something Nata says, "Hold on... 'rescue mission'? Why have I not heard anything about this?" Well, she might have indeed, but her mind has been on other things lately.
Nata's hand raises to gesture to Owen. 'you have a less bias view of the situation than I do. Will you tell Mother the story from the beginning, please?"
Raemira's attention moves from Nata to Owen, her eyes taking in the Gaidin very carefully, studying every detail. She has an expectant air about her.
Micana frowns and starts to jot notes down as this continues.
Owen straightens his back and nods, his tone growing less jovial as the seriousness of all this once again sinks into the man. "I am afraid that I didn't realize what was happening or the seriousness of it all until Nata Sedai spoke with me. When I was still a trainee Accepted Sinna had shown me one day in the stables that she could 'watch' a girl. I had caught her giggling in the back of the stables. That was All I knew at the time. Later it all progressed, she continued to watch this girl, her daughter, until one day she saw Kaella kidnapped. Worried she came to me seeking help in what to do for the girl. I told her there was nothing that we could do and left it at that. It would seem that in that time between my first experiance with Sinna and this viewing and the kidnapping she had shown her skill to Several others including other accepted and Trainee Tristain. Several days later they came to me, Sinna, Tristain and Kaehn Sinna's brother also a trainee and wanted my help in decifering some map coordinates. I told them that they were near Cairhein...about a days sailing away. The next day the boat docked and at least those three posiibly more helped to 'rescue' the girl Kaella from the boat. Now Kaella has been found to have the tallent and taken in as a Novice."
Raemira's frown grows more and more deeply, "Who are those that've been told about the Talent?" Raemira's not happy at all, not one bit. "I want all their names, and then I want them informed that I am to see them each individually. We have several things to 'discuss' about what they saw, or did not see as the case may be. You may know that this information is Sealed to the Flame because of the delicate nature of the Talent. If people thought the Tower was spying on them in such a manner, we'd have more trouble than its worth."
Owen nods his head almost another bow to Mother. "Yes Mother, of course. We collected the names that we knew of and made a list."
Raemira nods her head as she regards matters. She pulls a few papers from her neverending pull, then searches through them. There she finds the list that was sent with the original report, looking it over carefully, "It seems one was already given to me." She seems absent minded for a brief moment, "I will take care of the matter. Thank you for going over this information with me again."
Nata nods as Owen concludes. "Mother, you can tell from the circumstances what my concerns would be regarding the situation as a whole. Have you one other moment? It is regarding the tiles. I want to have permission to try something which may or may not damage them.
Raemira lifts a brow at Nata, "And what might that be?"
Nata says "they have been probed with earth alone to see if there are triggers or levers or hollow spaces behind them. They have not been probed with anything else for fear there is a subtle ward in them. Depending on the ward, if triggered, it may disintergrate them, or activate something defensive. For the same reason, we did not remove them. I want to use spirit, water, and other aspects, and even combined weaves to see if their meaning can be discerned that way. If you would rather that wait for more research, will do so."
Nata says "Rayche Sedai, I think, knows the meaning of at least one tile. I left you a note regarding that also, the three petaled flower one. I found her in my room...waiting for me one day and examining my tiles. I did not know she was there till I entered the room, had not warded the room since nothing of a sensitive nature in it."
Raemira listens quietly, sitting back in her chair with a thoughtful expression plastered upon her features. "It is your room Nata, and it is a project that you have been working on for quite a while. If you feel the need to investigate further, then you may do your research. It is an intriguing mystery, indeed."
Raemira nods her head a bit, listening to Nata, "I will looking forawrd to any reports you have to give on them."