“I suspect we are not thinking of the same thing,” the Aes Sedai says, certainty painting her words now. “To be imbued by the True Source is not to be made a - a battery, as you said. And to channel is different still. That is using a gift inborn to - think of it as using a cup to dip water from a river, where the channeler’s ability is the cup itself. And that - “
Memory and understanding strike her in the same moment. Moiraine goes pale as snow, as the fingers of her right hand wrap around her left wrist and squeeze tight, an unconscious motion.
“ - can be … absorbed. Under certain circumstances. But those who would do so are not human, and do not walk the same world.”
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Date: 2023-09-17 04:43 am (UTC)Memory and understanding strike her in the same moment. Moiraine goes pale as snow, as the fingers of her right hand wrap around her left wrist and squeeze tight, an unconscious motion.
“ - can be … absorbed. Under certain circumstances. But those who would do so are not human, and do not walk the same world.”