[pfsb] investigations and explorations

[blue_ajah]

Two days after Moiraine brought Wei Wuxian's talismans back to Twin Peaks, after she has taken the time necessary to review all of her notes as well as the histories she has been collecting, she calls Dale Cooper, who is still in Olympia, now, rather than Seattle.

All things considered, the conversation could have gone much, much worse.

She is well aware that they are going to have a much longer discussion after he returns in a few weeks, but he had agreed not to ask her to wait. She, in turn, had agreed, as before, not to go to Glastonbury Grove alone, or at night. She also agrees not to approach the pool closer than necessary to place the talismans, or to test it with her own weaving - not at present, anyway.

Hawk had been her next call.

A few days later, after he has had time to consider and to consult with the Bookhouse Boys, Hawk knocks on her apartment door and agrees to her request.

* * * * * * *
When Moiraine returns to Milliways, she leaves a sealed note with Bar, addressed to Wei Wuxian.

Master Wei--

I made the trial of your talismans according to your instructions. When I activated the one at the northernmost point, glowing red energy swept inward from the circle in a wave focused on the pool at its center.

The pool absorbed it all. It vanished into the depths without a ripple, and without a trace.

Nothing else has happened. Yet.

--Moiraine Sedai

That task completed, she settles at her preferred table with tea and begins sketching something in a notebook.

Comments

[herald_ingress]

She nods in agreement and asks, “Oh yes, who have you met? It wouldn’t be a girl who wears elaborate skeletal makeup, would it?”

[blue_ajah]

She nods, smiling a little.

"Lady Ninth; Harrow. I take it that you know her?"

[herald_ingress]

“Yes, she’s one of my new friends here. Well, she might be a bit too prickly to actually use the word friend, but that’s what I’d call us.”

[blue_ajah]

"I am pleased to hear it," the Aes Sedai replies, and deliberately leaves the reason why unspoken.

"Although the source of her power is different from mine, she reminds me in some ways of certain Aes Sedai that I have known. We have had a number of interesting conversations, even working together on certain matters."

[herald_ingress]

“She knows Tom, too,” Ingress says, spewing intelligence like a snow making machine at a ski resort in the fall.

“And now both she and Wei Wuxian, that’s another of my new friends, have been to the Underside with me. I love how everyone knows everyone else here.”

[blue_ajah]

"Oh?" the Aes Sedai murmurs.

"I am not especially surprised to hear that Tom has made her acquaintance, considering. You are certainly correct that the nature of this place can lead to easily meeting others and coming to know them well."

She taps the tip of her index finger lightly against her teacup.

"I have met Wei Wuxian, as it happens, but I confess that I do not know him well, yet, although we have discussed certain solutions to what some might describe as magical problems. He is a friend of yours, then?"

[herald_ingress]

Maybe not after their current thread!

“Yes. I met him and it was like we’d known each other forever.”

The alcohol may have helped with this, but still.

[blue_ajah]

Moiraine nods.

"He is very loyal to his friends, I understand. And if you are particularly close...."

[herald_ingress]

“Well, we’re still relatively new friends, but I think we’ll be close. So long as I can keep coming here regularly.”

[blue_ajah]

She nods again.

"I am curious, if you would not mind. Has Megwyn come with you recently? I seem to recall it can be difficult to be unable to reach her for too long."

[herald_ingress]

“That’s one of the odd things; time stops for me now. At least it has the past few visits. She hardly knows I’ve gone by the time I get back.”

She bites her lower lip. “It’s, ugh, I shouldn’t even think this, much less say it. It’s kind of fun, being on my own.”

[blue_ajah]

"There is nothing wrong with feeling that, or saying it, I think," Moiraine tells her, gently.

"Even two who are closely bonded can benefit from the space of their own minds and hearts, at times."

[herald_ingress]

“Thank you, Moiraine. That really makes me feel better about everything. Coming here, for whatever reason, has been a gift, I think.”

[blue_ajah]

"I am glad to hear it," she says, as gently as before.

If Megwyn has not been here with Ingress, then the Companion will have had no opportunity yet to make her own assessment of matters. She will wait, and see.

[herald_ingress]

"And I'm terribly glad I stopped to talk," she says, sipping her tea and feeling oh so very much the wise adult (who has absolutely no idea about the variable levels of Moiraine's interactions and thoughts with others. She'll probably figure this out one day - hopefully not the hard way!)

ooc: I think this can be a stopping place actually?

[blue_ajah]

[ooc: I think it can too. Thanks for the thread!]