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: (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."
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[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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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-28 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Dale Cooper doesn't look happy with this in the slightest.

"If that comes to pass, Moiraine, do you expect to return alive?"
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-28 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Another sip of coffee. He's got phrasing to work out.

"In light of the fact that of the three parties you've mentioned -- being yourself, Rand, and this Dark One -- all three of you have abilities that in this world we'd consider preternatural... what is it you think I could possibly contribute?"
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-28 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
"So you'd have me guard against Rand?"
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-29 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Why would he trust me to do that job, then?"
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-30 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
And in theory that should be enough.

But it isn't. Cooper finishes his coffee, puts the mug on the table. "Moiraine, do you remember when you proposed to participate in a mission to western China and needed information beyond the most bare generalities? And in the course of our discussion, it became clear that a little more knowledge of the development of firearms since the 1860s would be beneficial?"
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-07-30 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"It goes against all my training, as well as my personal inclination, to go into a life-threatening situation with little to no knowledge of the history, the culture, and the artillery."
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-08-06 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd like to see a map." Cooper folds his hands. "And I'd like to know about the people I'm likely to encounter -- their histories, the power they hold, and the weapons they'll use. At minimum."
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-08-09 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Cooper nods. "It should do, given our time frame -- which I'm assuming isn't long?"
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-08-09 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
What is wrong with peaches? It's not Cooper's favorite, but they go well in pie.

But that is a question that will have to wait. Cooper listens, focused, intent.
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2013-08-09 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Those that currently exist," Cooper says, after a moment. "And if you think knowledge of any of the others might make the difference between life or death, I certainly want to know about those."

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