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Walking on Air (2/2 of series)


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Another 300 word challenge. I went over this time. I blame Thom's PoV entirely.

 

 

 

Whatever had happened to Moiraine, whatever had been her ordeal, she wasn't telling Thom. She wasn't the same, but then again she was still herself.

 

He wanted to be there for her, as ... something more, but there were complications. He'd fallen in love with a letter, for one thing, one she'd written under duress. The tone of that letter was so different from the Moiraine he thought he knew. All of his certainty about her feelings vanished after they'd gotten back to their own world, to the real life world of The Dragon Reborn, prophecy, death, and her duties. He kept his distance.

 

When she'd come out of Rand's tent the night before he'd been close by, he'd stared at her beauty as she noticed him. Did she think he'd judged her for what the whole camp knew?

 

She wasn't his.

 

She wasn't anyone's.

 

Later the next morning he found her bathing in the cool, clear pond near their camp. She and the other Aes Sedai had worked on purifying it when they'd first arrived, doing whatever it was Aes Sedai do to make it fit for drinking, fit for swimming in. They'd had to remove most of the life in it. Lifeless now, except for her.

 

The sun shone from behind a cloud, and the sky became reflected in the pond, making her look like she was up there instead of down on the earth with him.

 

She didn't seem to notice he was there. She should have heard him, or felt him, he supposed, but this was all new. He was not sure of how this link between them worked. He stirred the rocks under his boot, stepped on a twig in the hope of alerting her to his presence.

 

The air changed around him, became slightly thicker for a startling moment, and he knew someone was channeling at him, most likely her although she did not turn around. The air felt freer almost immediately, although she still hadn't looked over his way.

 

From what he'd been told he thought all channelers had to see what it was they were doing. Maybe it was she that had been startled as well, had simply reacted.

 

She had her mysteries.

 

What had been done?

 

She called to him to join her, seemed to know who it was then. He supposed the bond would work like that. His dear Aes Sedai.

 

He took off his things and walked into the sky.

Edited by Kaitlin
a part was very confusing!
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I had a harder time writing this. I cannot write Thom's PoV! And there was a super confusing part in the middle which hopefully became less confusing. Moiraine bonded Thom, but it was done before this fic takes place! I was making it seem like she long distance-startle-bonded him or something instead of beginning to hold him with air. Meh.

 

Channelers say they have to see what they're doing, but Moiraine's channeled with her eyes closed before. I figured if she would do that again it'd be a defense mechanism sort of thing.

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