You are a hard woman, Moiraine Sedai, Lan Mandragoran had told her once. She had not disagreed then, and does not now.
She is who she is, and she has always been as hard as she has to be.
"I made my decision in this long ago. Nothing you have said here today has changed it."
Would the younger woman think differently of her if she knew everything that the Aes Sedai carried with her, done and undone, in her own past? Perhaps. A flicker of guilt whispers through her and she shoulders it as she has every other burden, then pushes it away.
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You are a hard woman, Moiraine Sedai, Lan Mandragoran had told her once. She had not disagreed then, and does not now.
She is who she is, and she has always been as hard as she has to be.
"I made my decision in this long ago. Nothing you have said here today has changed it."
Would the younger woman think differently of her if she knew everything that the Aes Sedai carried with her, done and undone, in her own past? Perhaps. A flicker of guilt whispers through her and she shoulders it as she has every other burden, then pushes it away.