Post-Halloween
Nov. 3rd, 2020 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Harrow is working. Very seriously. She is not mooning over her new relationship with Gideon even a little bit; she has too much work to do.
She is, however, wearing a skull with accents of deep, almost black purple, with a starburst or floral pattern just below her temple, that she has never been seen to wear before.
Other than that sentimental embellishment, however, she is entirely focused on Obaeg's Toward a Common Haemographology. She is making copious notes in the margins--courting future simian fury--and thinking that she should have found this for Moiraine before they started working on her weave notation.
She is, however, wearing a skull with accents of deep, almost black purple, with a starburst or floral pattern just below her temple, that she has never been seen to wear before.
Other than that sentimental embellishment, however, she is entirely focused on Obaeg's Toward a Common Haemographology. She is making copious notes in the margins--courting future simian fury--and thinking that she should have found this for Moiraine before they started working on her weave notation.
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Date: 2020-11-05 09:07 pm (UTC)"I asked her if it was permitted for Aes Sedai to be involved with their Warders and she said it's not unusual--more common than necromancer-cav relationships, at least--so we don't need to worry about any problems there."
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Date: 2020-11-05 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-05 09:25 pm (UTC)"I know they harbor the typical prejudices against necromancy of a living world. I simply wished to be aware of any other tricky topics." Was it also a discreet way to flag to Moiraine their relationship?
Maybe. You don't know. Shut up.
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Date: 2020-11-05 11:24 pm (UTC)She gently squeezes Harrow's shoulder and sits back, signaling to a waitrat as she does. She does not, however, move back to the seat across the table, but remains at Harrow's side.
"From that day, you might say that I was very much focused on my cause, and on what was necessary to achieve it. No matter the cost, in some cases."
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Date: 2020-11-05 11:26 pm (UTC)Even the Resurrection was a single star system--humanity would have survived without the Emperor.
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Date: 2020-11-05 11:41 pm (UTC)A waitrat hops up on a chair and waves a paw at Moiraine, who nods at it, then points to herself and to Harrow. It squeaks assent and scurries off again.
"I was married to my battle, as Lan was married to his, and we worked together in common for over twenty years. There was neither room nor time for anything else."
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Date: 2020-11-05 11:49 pm (UTC)What's the alternative? Failure? Unthinkable.
"But then you won."
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Date: 2020-11-05 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-06 12:06 am (UTC)And afterwards--as a result?--she could not return home.
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Date: 2020-11-06 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-06 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-06 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-06 02:54 am (UTC)"I suppose we have learned to use these reactions to drive all sorts of craft that could also be done using thalergenic magic. I know there are things we cannot do, like true healing; and things that are very difficult to do that thalergenic magicians seem to do much more easily."
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Date: 2020-11-06 09:26 am (UTC)"When I first came here, it was a relief to escape my imprisonment, even for a time. The Aelfinn and Eelfinn are not pleasant. They ... feed ... on those they capture, like me."
Her voice remains steady as she says this.
"But I have never been good with enforced idleness."
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Date: 2020-11-06 01:24 pm (UTC)"Okay, but you might need to help me out with when it's a bad time," she muses, swinging her feet and grinning the thrill of Harrow's hand on her thigh. "We might need a signal. Or you could just say: 'Gideon, I don't want you to kiss me for the next five minutes' and then I'll know I can kiss you in five minutes and ten seconds."
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Date: 2020-11-06 02:47 pm (UTC)She doesn't have a watch, but after a few weeks the four-hour death throes of the universe are burnt into her thanergetic sense. "Gideon, I don't want you to kiss me for the next f--"
"The next minute," she says, and picks up her book again.
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Date: 2020-11-06 02:50 pm (UTC)As Moiraine continues, she takes a moment to pour tea for the Aes Sedai, before preparing a glass of vaguely-minty water for herself.
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Date: 2020-11-06 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-06 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-06 03:29 pm (UTC)"Well. Suffice it to say that I involved myself with matters here to a great extent. And in the process, I made friends, and more than friends, and learned things."
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Date: 2020-11-06 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-06 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-06 03:44 pm (UTC)Gideon is already Unfairly Tall; the last thing she needs to do is climb up on a table.
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Date: 2020-11-06 04:25 pm (UTC)She lays her hand against the side of the teacup, drawing in its warmth.
"That was after I tore myself from the world of my birth. For a while."
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Date: 2020-11-06 04:32 pm (UTC)