blue_ajah: (lady in blue)
Moiraine ([personal profile] blue_ajah) wrote2013-07-13 09:16 pm

   

She has kept her silence for quite some while, knowing that the pace of time that passes between Twin Peaks and Milliways, and between Milliways and the world of her birth, is slowed and slowed again by factors she cannot explain. Still, it is no small gift, in that it grants her space in which to think and plan.

The Aes Sedai has used that time to study her options and the prophecies of the Karatheon Cycle, to dwell on the sound of the wind at night and her restless unease with every dawn. She has mulled over what Nynaeve had told her, and all the possibilities that the apocalypse at the bar at the end of all worlds may now have brought upon them.

("I cannot go back without undoing what was done. Can I?"

"That, I think, is mostly a question of how far back, yes? Or possibly it is a different kind of forward.")




There are other considerations to be taken into account, as it happens.

Dinner has become a habit for them, now, at least once or twice every week. It is her turn to host tonight, in the little house that she had begun to call her own. Moiraine has come to believe that she will always prefer tea, but she has developed something of a fondness for coffee all the same, and has been trying her hand at new ways of brewing it for these occasions.

The French press stands before her now on the countertop, and she slants a sideways look at him as she reaches for the canister that holds the coffee.
tibetanmethod: (rumpled in body and spirit)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-21 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Then why is it called the Last Battle?"
tibetanmethod: (fidelity -- bravery -- integrity)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-21 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Cooper nods, and drinks a little more coffee.

And says, thoughtful, "You wouldn't bring this up if you weren't planning something. Which means you think that action is necessary. Probably action taken by you."
tibetanmethod: (rumpled in body and spirit)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-21 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you know what you're going to do?"

Given Moiraine's past actions... her options may be limited.
tibetanmethod: (rumpled in body and spirit)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-21 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Might as well drink coffee to brace for impact.
tibetanmethod: (in need of answers)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-21 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
That... is not what Cooper was expecting, at all. Some of that is betrayed on his face.

"In what capacity?"
tibetanmethod: (i've got a theory)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-25 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Cooper inclines his head.

He respects her opinion; while he might not agree wholly with what she says, no one can say that Moiraine is unobservant.

"That's a fair conclusion to draw."
tibetanmethod: (o rly?)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-25 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Cooper blinks, straightening. "Because you do." It sounds like it might be a question. "Being a Warder means something very specific to you, and it's not something that I am, or that I've ever been."
tibetanmethod: (rumpled in body and spirit)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-25 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
It could be. And yet -- what little Cooper knows about the Warder bond includes the part where it involves a permanent connection between the minds of the Warder and the one warded.

And Dale Cooper has had a lifetime's worth of someone (or something) having access to his mind.

Something in Cooper's eyes suggests shutters drawn. But he speaks almost gently when he says, "It's not something that I am."
tibetanmethod: (o rly?)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-25 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
A sip of coffee. "I never thought it was, Moiraine."
tibetanmethod: (rumpled in body and spirit)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-25 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
The oath which he took upon becoming an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation involved swearing to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Cooper is fairly sure that the oath sworn upon entry to the armed forces is similar. But a lawman isn't a soldier.

"Before I decide -- " After a long moment. "I'd like more information. And... you should be aware of my own personal limitations. My marksmanship is something I'm rightfully proud of, I've participated in firefights, I can take part in covert operations -- but I'm not combat-ready, Moiraine, and I'd be worthless in an army."
tibetanmethod: (i've got a theory)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-28 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Which means, Cooper thinks, that the courteous thing will mean phrasing his questions carefully, in light of her particular strictures on speech.

"The basic question," Cooper says, "is what you think the part you'll play might be."
tibetanmethod: (rumpled in body and spirit)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-28 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"But you think that it would be a physically dangerous situation." Eyebrows raised. "Or else you wouldn't want a guard."

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