One day Kandra was sent to meet Marona Sedai in her quarters. This was quite unusual to send for a certain novice, but Marona had specifically asked for the new novice by the name of Kandra. When an Aes Sedai said jump a novice is supposed to ask 'how high.' Kandra tried to be as quick as possible, as she knew Marona just a little and didn't want to make her disappointed in her. On her way to the Aes Sedai quarters Kandra saw, servants and other novices like herself, running around on various errands. Her slippers made small sounds and the tiled floors and she finally got to the door she was told Marona Sedai was living behind. Kandra knocked quietly at the door and someone answered from behind it.
Kandra opened the door and slipped inside and quickly closed the door behind her. She looked around the room she was in and saw that there was a normal meeting room for greeting guests. It had two doors, the one Kandra had entered and one which probably lead into the rest of the quarters. A table and comfortable chairs around it was standing in the middle of the room and a big closet was standing against an otherwise blank wall.
"Please make yourself comfortable," a woman's voice said from behind the other door in the room.
Kandra anxiously sat down in one of the chairs and she felt the cold seat through her woolen novice dress and shift. She liked the dresses that the novices had to wear. The dresses where quite thick and soft so the wearer didn't have to feel too cold, but the seat wasn't at all warm. In fact the whole room was a little too cold for Kandra to feel good in.
"I'll be out in a minute. Good of you to get up here so quickly, you have potential to be a good pupil," the voice continued. It had to be Marona Sedai, Kandra thought.
In the cold room Kandra looked around once more and her eyes fell on her own reflection in a quite big mirror hanging on the closet door. As she was looking at herself she saw herself all flushed red in her face from the cold room. Her eyes continued down her body and amazed looked at her reflection's tits. Her nipples where almost poking through the wool of her dress.
"Excuse me, Marona Sedai. If I may ask, why is it so cold in here," Kandra asked through the door. She knew that that was not the way to address an Aes Sedai, but she had to know.
"I usually keep the meeting room a little colder to make certain visitors feel less at ease, and I just wanted to see how you would react. And I want you to ask me your questions immediately in the future, Kandra. Do you understand me? And one more thing, the things I tell you are for your ears only. Yours only," Marona answered back from inside the door.
"Now for the reason I sent for you. I want you to fetch my saddlebags from the stables; I was in a hurry and left them there earlier. And I would also like you to get me the special package from the leatherworker he has for me when you're down there," she continued.
"Just tell the stable master that you are running an errand for me, and he will give you the saddlebags. The leatherworker will probably make a fuzz about the fact that I don't pick up the package myself, but just tell him I don't have the time."
"Excuse me, Marona Sedai, but it's almost time for me to get to bed for the evening. I won't be able to get all the things today."
"Leave the worries to me. Just hurry back, Kandra"
Kandra almost ran all the way down to the stable, just getting lost once on the whole way down. As she entered the big building the sky was getting darker and the skies was starting to show signs of the stars above. She had to ask the stable hands to show her the way to the stable master. After some explaining he handed Kandra the saddlebags she was sent to fetch. She then hurried over to the leatherworker to get the package for Marona Sedai.
"I was sent by Marona Sedai to get a package for her. Do you have one," she asked him.
"Why isn't she coming herself? She usually does, you know," he answered back. He looked at Kandra from head to toe.
"She told me to get it. She said that she didn't have the time."
"It's just that I don't know if the work is finished," he said slyly.
"When I think of it, you and Marona Sedai are almost the exact same size," he continued.
"I won't hand out work that isn't perfect to anybody. If you want the package you will have to let me check my work with your help."
Kandra was somewhat stressed by that time. The time for all the novices was approaching fast. She thought she had no choice but to help the man.
"What do you need me for," Kandra asked the man.
"Do you know what it is you are getting for Marona Sedai," he asked.
"I don't know. She said it was something special I was to get her quickly," she answered back.
"So I want you to help me by removing your dress. No, don't look surprised, I have seen a girl before."
Kandra was shocked. To remove her dress in front of a total stranger was totally out of the question.
"You have to try this on, or I won't let you deliver the package. Marona Sedai will ask questions and I have to give her answers you will not like," he continued.
"Look here, I'll show you," he said smiling. He went into a small storage room and returned with a small package in his hands. As he opened it and held up the contents for Kandra to see, her eyes widened and a fierce blush was spreading on her cheeks.
"Oh, I didn't know," Kandra said with her hands over her mouth.
Kandra reached over to get the leather thing the leatherworker held out for her. It was a sort of leather constraints or carrying device to be worn by a person. She could see a whole lot of leather straps and metal rings attached together in a complicated way. She turned the thing over and over in her hands and slowly understood that this was made to fit a woman's body perfectly. Kandra started to think how it would feel to be clothed in the leather thing, and she suddenly understood. She looked at the leatherworker and turned around to let him help her with her dress. Kandra let the dress fall to the floor and she was swallowing hard. Her throat was all dried up and she slowly turned around to face him.
The leatherworker smiles warmly at her and he picked up the dress and neatly folded it with a professionals touch.