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Dec. 15th, 2004 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_ajah*Moiraine is slowly pacing the floor of her room, thinking. As she paces, she turns a blue flower over and over in her hands. The Aes Sedai has been doing a lot of thinking, lately; remembering a certain conversation with Dream and considering, as promised, the surprising offer that he has made.
Eventually she slows, then stands still, having come to some conclusion. Still carrying the flower, Moiraine leaves her room and takes the stairs to the bypass door. Avoiding the bar entirely, she goes down to the lake and walks along the shore near the water. The air is crisp and cool, and the sky clear. She draws to a stop at a sheltered area that has been a refuge for her in the past, then takes hold of the key around her neck and concentrates, hoping for Morpheus to hear her call.*
Eventually she slows, then stands still, having come to some conclusion. Still carrying the flower, Moiraine leaves her room and takes the stairs to the bypass door. Avoiding the bar entirely, she goes down to the lake and walks along the shore near the water. The air is crisp and cool, and the sky clear. She draws to a stop at a sheltered area that has been a refuge for her in the past, then takes hold of the key around her neck and concentrates, hoping for Morpheus to hear her call.*
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Date: 2004-12-16 02:54 am (UTC)And, indeed, he is. Somber, solemn, and waiting. She rarely calls, so he expects something of import.
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Date: 2004-12-16 02:57 am (UTC)So you are, and I am glad of it. Thank you; I hope I have not disturbed you.
*Moiraine is toying with the blue flower. The Aes Sedai looks outwardly composed, but one might almost think she is nervous.*
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Date: 2004-12-16 02:59 am (UTC)He looks a bit taken aback. This is the Moiraine version of stuttering and staring at her toes.
"Is something amiss?"
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:07 am (UTC)*She offers him a sincere smile, and takes a breath.*
I have been thinking about what you said. Before. As I said I would.
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:14 am (UTC)"I am glad that you have given it consideration. I wish to reassure you that whatever you have decided, I will not be hurt."
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:22 am (UTC)*She hesitates.*
And I have not decided, quite. I ... I do not understand how it would work. How it could. And so, I must ask. Can you explain?
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:27 am (UTC)He folds his hands together, letting the robe cover them,
"This is what allows for the capacity to dream, that is what I come from. I am already present in your mind, however I choose not to allow myself to impact those whom I am anchored in. Should you choose to accept my offer, I would simply allow you to know the part of me which already lives within you. Allow you to know something of what I am feeling, and what I am doing."
He pauses, and looks slightly amused for a moment,
"Not, however, where I am. Because I am all around you, even when you wake. Just as my siblings are."
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:35 am (UTC)Yes, I can imagine that would be extremely disconcerting, to say the least.
*She looks intently at him.*
This would not be the same as the link you have with Liz, would it?
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:43 am (UTC)And you would know my emotions, as well.
... It would be in most ways like a traditional Warder bond, then?
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:45 am (UTC)Because neither of them know if the traditional way would work, but he is doing this for her. So it should be what she wants.
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:57 am (UTC)Why?
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Date: 2004-12-16 04:02 am (UTC)He smiles at her again, and reaches to cup her cheek.
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Date: 2004-12-16 04:13 am (UTC)I am glad to hear that, certainly, but that is not what I meant. I should have been more clear.
Why offer such a thing in the first place?
*She stops herself there, struggling with words, and falls silent, watching him.*
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Date: 2004-12-16 04:26 am (UTC)"Because I love you. I am a private individual, but that does not mean that I wish to close you out. Perhaps, at times, everyone else, but not you. It makes me happy when we sit and speak, in a great way it makes me happy simply to know that you are around. I, after all, can feel you at any time I choose. This imbalance disturbs me, and I would wish to offer you the same freedom."
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Date: 2004-12-16 04:42 am (UTC)And I love you, Morpheus. I wish I knew better how to express it, how very much I care, but I do love you, have no doubt of that.
*She hesitates for a moment.* You do realize that a Warder bond -- although it can be released, it is possible to do so -- by custom is meant to be permanent?
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Date: 2004-12-16 04:44 am (UTC)And he accepts that. Joyfully, one could say with perfect honesty.
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Date: 2004-12-16 04:56 am (UTC)Then I have made my decision, and I shall accept your offer.
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Date: 2004-12-16 05:29 am (UTC)She can feel, now, what he can not say. He loves her, yes, she knew. However; he loves her fiercely, wildly, passionately. With the slow, deep burning of the heart of a sun or the center of a planet.
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Date: 2004-12-16 05:46 am (UTC)Moiraine knows that he, in turn, can tell what she feels beneath her serene exterior-- an absolute devotion and brightly shining love, so strong as to have been the only thing in her life to have ever weakened her commitment to Rand and her cause.
She reaches up to him and twines her arms around his neck.*
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Date: 2004-12-16 05:50 am (UTC)So he kisses her, and holds her with a firm and gentle grasp.
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Date: 2004-12-16 06:13 am (UTC)Then she kisses him back, not at all hesitantly, and presses closer to him.*
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