Fanfic:Discoveries in Shades of Gold

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Discoveries in Shades of Gold
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In the very back of the Infirmary, past the private wards and storage closets, there was a small library. It was called a library because it housed books belonging to the Yellow Ajah, but in reality it was a converted closet. Admittedly, it was quite a large closet, but most of them here in the Infirmary were because there were a lot of supplies that needed to be stored. The Tower had learned from difficult and painful experience that they needed to be prepared at all time for pretty much anything.

The books placed in this converted library were particular to the Yellow and kept here so that they would be at easy reach. There weren't many, because most needed to be accessible to everyone, but there were a few. In reality, it was less a library room as a library shelf, but it sounded better to call it a library and so that's what most did, even if they knew the truth of it.

Gareth found himself in the library that day, although his initial trip was to find something amongst the spare supplies kept in the room. While there, he paused to shuffle through the books to be found there and pulled one out. As he began to flip through the pages, he heard a quiet thump from the shelf. With a surprised frown, he turned his head and looked at the shelf. He pulled the other books out and saw an uneven edge with a space at the very bottom of the shelf and he set the books away, reaching in and wedging his finger into that space. He was able to pull out a thin wooden panel to discover a book hidden there.

Well now, he thought. The large Asha'man set the other books down so that he could take a seat and look through this one.

In doing so, he discovered that many of the pages were blank except for several in the middle kept in a precise hand. Something about it looked familiar, but he couldn't exactly place it either. Part of his mind thought to his mentor when he came to the Tower so many years ago, Lucan Asha'man, but it didn't really look like his hand either. The more he read, he realized that these were the weaves that some members of the Yellow Ajah were rumored to know, but were otherwise kept secret. Even the rumor only reached those members who had been fully raised for some time, and he had thought them no more than that: rumors.

Reversed Healing Weave... This is a weave where upon the Healing weave is reversed and used as a matter of self-defense. It requires bodily contact.

Hand of Agony... This is another weave designed for self-defense and requires bodily contact. It stimulates the pain receptors of the body and causes a stunning effect.

Sculpting Weave... This is a weave where by the tissue of the human body can be manipulated, fat tissue 'burnt' away or other tissue increased to affect a person's appearance. It is a difficult weave requiring great caution and is dangerous to the person undergoing it.

Gareth found that not only was this naming and describing the weaves, but it was instructing how to do them! Having always had a keen memory, as soon as he read the instructions, they were committed to his mind. He realized with gravity the knowledge he had just stumbled across and so when he finished reading, because really who would be able to keep themselves from reading it all, he put the book back and made sure the secret panel was secure before putting the other books back.

He left the room with far more than he had gone in for.