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! __Nynaeve__ POV

[Rosil][{Image src='ToM,Ch20/Blue Ajah.png' style='float:left'}], the new [Mistress of Novices|Aes Sedai], instructs [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] as she goes for her test for the shawl. [Rosil], [Niere] and [Meramor] have made her welcome in the [Tower|White Tower]. They reach the room with the [oval ring]. The seven sisters who will conduct the test are [Saerin|Saerin Asnobar], [Yukiri], [Barasine], [Romanda|Romanda Cassin], [Rubinde], [Lelaine|Lelaine Akashi] and [Seaine|Seaine Herimon], all [Sitters]. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] is also there. [Rosil|rosil] finishes the formal instructions and [Saerin|Saerin Asnobar] touches her with a weave of [Spirit|One Power].[1] [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] enters the [oval ring] and the test begins.

In her tests there is a recurring theme of people hurt or in danger that she must abandon. In one she is in a room of sick children. Mistress [Mala] has abandoned them. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] must abandon them as well. She is in the [Two Rivers] and [Shadowspawn] are attacking. [Bran al'Vere|Brandelwyn alVere], [Perrin|Perrin Aybara], [Mistress al'Donel|Mistress alDonel], [Aeric Botteger] and others call to her to help. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] begins breaking the rules, running, channeling before she reaches the proper place, to help people. The last test comes. She is in the [Blight]. Atop a hill, she sees that she is in [Malkier] at the [Seven Towers]. [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] is there besieged by [Darkhound]. She uses [Fire|One Power] on the [Darkhound] but it has no effect so she [balefire|Weaves#b]s them. She finally drags [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] with her back through the arch.

She is burned, bruised and bleeding all over her body. Her braid is gone. [Saerin|Saerin Asnobar] shouts for someone to [Heal|Weaves#h] her and [Rosil] complies. [Saerin|Saerin Asnobar] is livid that the test was so harsh, but [Rubinde] and [Barasine] coldly say it was proper and that she failed. She ran, she was not serene and she used a forbidden weave. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] replies that she would rather save lives than have the title [Aes Sedai]. While the [Sitters] discuss, [Egwene|Egwene alVere] tells [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] that she should not have been able to channel prematurely at all. It is the nature of the test. It was probably the result of [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara]'s experience in %%ot [Tel'aran'rhiod|TelAranRhiod]%% that allowed her to break the rules. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] admits that she created the tests with the [Two Rivers] and the final one with [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran]. The [Sitters] finish their discussion. [Saerin|Saerin Asnobar] asks her to swear never to use [balefire|Weaves#b] again but she refuses. She tells them that if she has to use it at [Shayol Ghul] with [Rand|Rand alThor] then she will. [Egwene|Egwene alVere] warns them that refusing to raise the woman who helped cleanse the taint, who defeated [Moghedien], the wife of the King of [Malkier], would look very bad. [Rubinde], [Barasine] and [Lelaine|Lelaine Akashi] vote no, but [Yukiri], [Seaine|Seaine Herimon], [Romanda|Romanda Cassin] and [Saerin|Saerin Asnobar] vote yes. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] passes the test, barely. They send her to her quarters for a night of contemplation before the ceremony the next morning but she has one thing to do first.

[Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] [Travels|Weaves#t] to the [Aes Sedai] camp outside the [Black Tower]. They are still being made to wait for some reason.[2] [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] asks directions then goes to [Myrelle|Myrelle Berengari]'s tent. She is there with one of her [Warders], a big man with an [Illianer|Illian (Country)]-style beard.[3] She tells [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] to come back tomorrow but [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] threatens her to get it done now. [Myrelle|Myrelle Berengari] weaves [Spirit|One Power] and [Nynaeve|Nynaeve alMeara] can feel [Lan|al'Lan Mandragoran] in her mind. He is still alive.
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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[#1] As we saw in [NS,Ch9]. It is not clear what this weave does.
\\[#2] We learn more about what is going on in the [Black Tower] in [ToM,Ch46].
\\[#3] He is [Nuhel Dromand].
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