Soaking Wet (Anyone!)

Kipcha growled, rubbing her eyes with the backs of her palms.  She was practicing her 100 weaves to be Raised in the Gardens, and the weaves involving Water were eluding her terribly.  Most women were strong in Water, and weak in fire and earth.  Kipcha however, was relatively strong in Fire, for a woman, and weak in Water.  It was frustrating, to say the least. 

She kept hearing, in her dreams and while awake, the voice of the Great Lord, encouraging her, willing her to go on, to become the great Black Aes Sedai she could become.  She knew it was in her, knew that this was what she was to become, but how was she to do it?  Atia seemed so sure of her destiny, so sure that whoever it was speaking to her that it was her destiny, but Kipcha just..wasn't sure.

The Aes Sedai she had been having lessons with lately had been disappointed, or so it seemed to Kipcha, in her ability to decide on one Ajah.  The Yellow seemed promising, and a place where she could use the Healing weaves to warp them to Compulsion, or weaves used to Torture, but the Blue could be a possibility too.  The Blue were filled with reason, and almost every leader had an Aes Sedai advisor, which was invariably an Aes Sedai of the Blue or the Gray.  Kipcha bit her lip, her green eyes narrow, her blonde hair tied back in a braid.  Which, which?? The decision would have to be made soon; she was getting ever closer to her Raising, she could feel it in her bones. 

"Relax, Kipcha," she said to herself, taking a deep breath.  She embraced the Source, feeling the warmth of saidar flow into her, and she began weaving Water and Air together, in the form of a ball, and moved it up into the Air, holding it above her head.  A sound from the bushes, however, startled her, and she dropped the ball, hearing a loud SPLASH as it came crashing down…on someone's head. 

Kipcha's eyes got wide and she began to shake.  Oh Light, what had just happened?  "I'm so sorry," she began, running up to the person.  "Are you all right?"  Light, she didn't even know who she had hit!