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by Leala » October 10th, 2014, 1:17 am
It had been a very long time since Leala had felt this angry. It was likely the first time in her life that she had felt any kind of anger toward an authority figure. The Aes Sedai teaching her history class had dismissed her from class, assuming that Leala knew everything, because she raised her hand for every question. There had been no warning, no subtle clues for her to interpret. There had simply been a, "Well, child, if you know so much about this topic, you may as well spend the rest of the class in your quarters, studying for the next class."
The audacity of the dismissal, the watery reason, the absolute rudeness of classifying her as an outsider enraged her to the point that she didn't even care that she was stomping back to her quarters.
She noticed someone out by the clothes line as she approached. She assumed it was a servant, but she realized that it couldn't have been. Novices were expected to do their own laundry.
The young man was hovering suspiciously around the undergarments. She wanted to report him, but she had a feeling that she would be explaining her situation, which would make her angrier, which would likely have her cited for disrespecting her teacher. And, all of a sudden, her compulsion to obey the rules vanished. Some sort of mad silliness took her.
Quietly, she walked up behind him, and said, "I do hope this is some sort of conquest, and that you're not looking for your own use."
