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[After this.]
When Dale leaves, Moiraine sees him to the door and locks it after him, then returns to the sofa, where she curls up as she had been wont to do as a novice and sits quietly for a while, lost in her own thoughts.
Eventually, something occurs to her, and she glides down the hallway to her bedroom once more. This time, she retrieves Raven's feather from the pinewood box and holds it lightly in her hand, stroking it with the tips of her fingers.
How I wish I could speak with you.
When Dale leaves, Moiraine sees him to the door and locks it after him, then returns to the sofa, where she curls up as she had been wont to do as a novice and sits quietly for a while, lost in her own thoughts.
Eventually, something occurs to her, and she glides down the hallway to her bedroom once more. This time, she retrieves Raven's feather from the pinewood box and holds it lightly in her hand, stroking it with the tips of her fingers.
How I wish I could speak with you.
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:06 am (UTC)It is only a little bit of a surprise.
Moiraine is likely to feel a slight ticklish tug on the inside of her skull.
And then, of course, she feels a more physically substantial tug on her hair.
Because that is how Raven rolls.
"You are forgetting, I am thinking, how much that is for itching."
But he's laughing as he says it, and for a flickering moment his eyes are kind.
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-22 03:18 am (UTC)If you are going going to put it like that, Magpie --
"Mostly no."
Then he tweaks her nose. Gently.
"You are so much bored, perhaps?"
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:21 am (UTC)"I would say that this day has been anything but boring, in fact."
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:27 am (UTC)(Maybe later he will use it as a trampoline. Who can say?)
Then he tilts his head, watching her out of brilliant black eyes.
"That, I think, is not so much a surprise."
She did call him, after all. That is, in itself, not so common an occurrence.
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:37 am (UTC)She carefully shuts and latches the pinewood box, then glides over to the bed and takes a seat as well, beside him.
"I am so very glad that you are here, Raven."
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:39 am (UTC)It is comfortable.
And maybe a little comforting, too.
"You do not always have to be waiting for that, I do not think."
In case she was wondering.
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:51 am (UTC)"I know," Moiraine says at last, slightly muffled. "But I do not wish for you to ever think that I would take you for granted."
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:58 am (UTC)"Moiraine."
His voice is warm even as his smile is crooked.
"Sometimes, I am thinking, that is how love works."
He tugs her a little more tightly against him, arm wrapped firmly around her shoulders.
"Also family, yes?When we are needed, we come. Dire circumstances are not so much a necessity."
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:07 am (UTC)"Then it is fortunate that the circumstances of this day are not what I would call dire."
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:08 am (UTC)"That is not always for saying much."
Not for either of them, really.
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:13 am (UTC)She tilts her head in order to look up at him.
"And yet."
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:20 am (UTC)He doesn't quite laugh, just leans into her a little bit.
"You are, perhaps, not so much wanting me to guess."
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:22 am (UTC)A soft breath.
"I spoke with Morpheus last night, Raven. In the Dreaming."
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:26 am (UTC)Stone-still, even.
Something vast moves behind his eyes.
He does not blink.
"It was not so much a choice, that?"
Hers, his -- who can say?
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-22 04:34 am (UTC)"Possibly he is for learning. That is, I think, not so bad a thing."
That Moiraine was not expecting him goes without saying.
"You are also for learning, yes? Then and now. So."
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:41 am (UTC)"Raven. You know perfectly well what I am capable of learning."
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Date: 2012-07-22 04:42 am (UTC)"Possibly not for this conversation, I am thinking. I was not so much there."
Or was he?
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Date: 2012-07-22 05:08 am (UTC)"And no. I would say that we have both learned, in the sense that you mean. The past is past, and will stay that way."
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Date: 2012-07-22 05:19 am (UTC)Time travel is not for amateurs.
"But what will come, I think, is always changing."
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Date: 2012-07-22 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-22 05:23 am (UTC)He does not, however, let go of Moiraine.
"People are for making choices. It is not always so much the same."
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Date: 2012-07-22 05:35 am (UTC)"It has been some time."
Softly said.
"So much has happened, Raven. Both today, and over the past year and more."
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Date: 2012-07-22 05:42 am (UTC)At this he moves away just enough to tilt her face up toward his, black eyes wide and bright.
"Things are always changing. Sometimes that is not so bad a thing."
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