illegitimate sister of Count Gwilam Alman At birth Anunl was placed in the Bene Gessent Kinder House attached to the Chap ter House on Chusuk Kinder Houses provided care for infant Bene Gessent girls who began formal training within the first few months of their lives Anunl starred keeping journals when she was about five and even these early eatnes show she was unhappy living in a dormitory with five other girls, supervised by an ever-changing staff of Sisters Her entries indicate CORRINO ANURIL 170 CORRINO ANURIL a growing inability to make close personal attachments to others Instead she seems to have built a fantasy hfe about the forests which surrounded her school Only when she writes of the forest and its animals do we hear a laughing, carefree child ' I work so hard at my prana and bindu exercises, and I'm getting better, but now I just use it to play hide and seek with the armeks in the wood;, And today I sat so still and cold that a fimsh thought I was a bush and tried to build her nest on my shoulder'' As Anunl grew older, she became interested in the music which surrounded her on Chusuk, and after working with several of the great lusichord masters, she became a skillful player Unfortunately for her, the Sisters did not consider such a sfciH useful or appropriate The lovely melodies that smg from my strings are all that keep me from dying in this rigid, sterile place of women and rules All the Sisters tell me how ugly I look when I play my darling Bionbec [apparently the name of her luwchord] and that I will end up a wandering minstrel instead of a proper lord's lady Well I don't want to be a lord's anything' I want to be a musician all my life Such a career would be forbidden, of course, for a Bene Gessent breeder, and at fourteen Anunl was transferred to the Chapter House school on Gamont for specialized training Her journals for that period record a short and unhappy residence there Thank the Great Mother1 The Sisters are transferring me to Kaitain next month Molly says she's never heard of a novice being sent to three different schools and she thinks I'm either a special student or a dumb one I think the "dumb" label is the right one I simply can't stand the lessons we're having now The man I had today was pitiful-and Mother Jachaal had given me all those idiotic postures to assume- and that silly costume with glitter for my nipples and that stone HI my navel I told her that these sessions would work better if I could take Binnbec with me to play, but she just snorted through her nose and said something about "music therapy,' whatever that means I dont [sic] know, journal, what Kattain is like, but it can't be any worse thaa this I just wish 1 din't [sic] get so sick when we travel Sister Maura says that I'll just have to study regular academics there-plus deportment etiquette and the regular B G training routines and that there are iay students in the school too from the Noble Houses I ve never