21 New InformationTWO HUNDRED NOVICES ALMOST choked on their venison when Azhur appeared in the Wait during evening meal. Not only was this the novice who had achieved the most astounding advance in the Novitiate’s history, it was also a visit from a luminary who was surely the first Loremaster of the Second Circle to stroll unannounced into the private world of the novices and act as if he thought everyone there was his equal, but that was Azhur. His exalted identity was so new and unfamiliar to him he seemed to have difficulty perceiving it was there.
As he came down the steps under the arch some older lads, who knew they could get away with it, started a chant of Wring-er! Wring-er! and hammered on the tables till the Tower of the Novitiate trembled with the shouting and pounding. Azhu
