( That feeling, that — everything, and in that moment, Nynaeve knows... one thing. )
Light take me, where are you from?
( There's no other world that's had people with the same sense of the way the One Power moves through those of their world, at least not when she's allowed she may well see it, may well be attuned to it. Yet that's not for the here and now, and instead the door finally gives under their combined efforts.
It also, in its not so helpful way, isn't ready to let them and the guard through, because there's no way she's ready to let a younger woman thrust herself first into danger; she's not that far gone from the lifetime of responsibility she'd been adopted into in the Two Rivers.
(One day, she might reflect in near delirium on how she, Egwene, and the Elayne she'll know are at heart leaders of different and complementary types, none inclined to bowing heads or truly caving before the painful demands of the world. This day, she simply is a woman stuck holding a man with another, younger woman.)
She grunts, hefting him more to her side and a step away from the door, opening up access for Elayne. )
Fine! Just be quick about it.
( Because lingering is inviting trouble, and she's had enough uninvited trouble to last her several turnings of the Wheel, and she's not even in the timeline where their world is threatened into unmaking depending on how the Dragon Reborn moves within the world they've been reborn into. )
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Light take me, where are you from?
( There's no other world that's had people with the same sense of the way the One Power moves through those of their world, at least not when she's allowed she may well see it, may well be attuned to it. Yet that's not for the here and now, and instead the door finally gives under their combined efforts.
It also, in its not so helpful way, isn't ready to let them and the guard through, because there's no way she's ready to let a younger woman thrust herself first into danger; she's not that far gone from the lifetime of responsibility she'd been adopted into in the Two Rivers.
(One day, she might reflect in near delirium on how she, Egwene, and the Elayne she'll know are at heart leaders of different and complementary types, none inclined to bowing heads or truly caving before the painful demands of the world. This day, she simply is a woman stuck holding a man with another, younger woman.)
She grunts, hefting him more to her side and a step away from the door, opening up access for Elayne. )
Fine! Just be quick about it.
( Because lingering is inviting trouble, and she's had enough uninvited trouble to last her several turnings of the Wheel, and she's not even in the timeline where their world is threatened into unmaking depending on how the Dragon Reborn moves within the world they've been reborn into. )