She has to open her eyes again to do it, so her respite is short-lived. Anyway, Moiraine's expression is absolutely changeless, because of course it is.
She waves away the existing portal and reaches her hand out to Gideon, trying to open herself in the same way she has felt Moiraine doing and that she has done in short-lived and disastrous moments with the True Source.
For a moment, Gideon is overwhelming, a blaze of light and heat and thalergy; she remembers poor oblivious Wei Wuxian trying desperately to convince himself that his love for Lan Wangji was merely an attraction to the other man's golden core.
Oh no, she thinks, realizing Gideon is like a tiny sun she is attempting to harness. Oh no, she's hot--
She begins to hurriedly convert the thalergy to thanergy and funnel it away as quickly as she can, so the death energy doesn't do additional harm beyond the initial impact.
It's easier than accepting and 'killing' Moiraine's energy; almost too easy. She feels she could drain Gideon dry. She rapidly builds the structure of Spirit, reaching and probing to a different location, but one she certainly knows well.
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She waves away the existing portal and reaches her hand out to Gideon, trying to open herself in the same way she has felt Moiraine doing and that she has done in short-lived and disastrous moments with the True Source.
For a moment, Gideon is overwhelming, a blaze of light and heat and thalergy; she remembers poor oblivious Wei Wuxian trying desperately to convince himself that his love for Lan Wangji was merely an attraction to the other man's golden core.
Oh no, she thinks, realizing Gideon is like a tiny sun she is attempting to harness. Oh no, she's hot--
She begins to hurriedly convert the thalergy to thanergy and funnel it away as quickly as she can, so the death energy doesn't do additional harm beyond the initial impact.
It's easier than accepting and 'killing' Moiraine's energy; almost too easy. She feels she could drain Gideon dry. She rapidly builds the structure of Spirit, reaching and probing to a different location, but one she certainly knows well.