Her calm is preternatural, and helps enormously. Nevertheless, like all living things, under the surface Moiraine Sedai is a raging storm. As she brushes aside unnecessary sensory noise, she becomes aware of pillars of magic caging the Aes Sedai's mind; the Oaths of which she has spoken, she assumes. Chains run through her verbal centers, the adrenal glands that recognize threats, through other centers she doesn't quite recognize the function of.

These same centers light up, though, as Moiraine begins to channel. She dials into these particular senses, and what floats up in the darkness behind her eyes is the image of a rosebud opening to the light. It is an altogether unfamiliar image--very little grows on the Ninth House, and none of it is ornamental--but the blaze of light and cascade of energy metabolizing in the (wholly notional) cells is indeed familiar.

"I see it," she says says slowly. "The rosebud. Can you... channel a particular element?" How does this rush of energy become Air or Fire?