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Journal Entry #... does it even matter?
I was walking the stairs today, back towards the Blue Ajah quarters after a frustrating engagement in the Blight, back to my home...
my home... The concept hit me fairly strongly, for I had not truly considered it for years... We tell Novices and Accepteds that when they
join the White Tower they will leave behind their pasts, to start anew. But I did not imagine that I would forget that past... that I would
not be able to recall my life before slipping into a white Novice dress for the first time. Even more strange, I found myself unable to recall
my given Surname. I had to think about it for a few moments, and even felt compelled to check my memory by digging up this journal, a ledger I
have not maintained for some time it seems.
Rianniserne... that was it... I am unsure how to feel about the surety that it WAS it. For now Sedai is the only Surname I truly know.
Who was that young Rianniserne girl like all those years ago... I find myself mired in a strange melancholy. A moments thought of tracking down
the name Rianniserne, to see if perhaps any of my family have survived all these hundreds of years. But then what? Reestablish a relationship?
Listen to stories about a family who I cannot even remember their names... Or even their faces. I wonder if my mother somehow walked into the
White Tower if I would even recognize her... would she recognize me.
It is a strange thing the passing of time for one whose age only barely shows upon her features. I wonder if I will maintain this journal
now, to try and record my life so that an older Kitiara Sedai may remember. Or perhaps a record for another young Rianniserne to read about
the accomplishments of her distance relative... Perhaps not, perhaps there is no additional young Rianniserne to find it.
- K