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[blue_ajah]

Shortly before sunset, Moiraine had come downstairs and gone quietly out the door to the lake. From time to time, a particularly observant or sensitive patron might well have noticed a flicker of golden or silver light near the edge of the building, or by the greenhouse, or at the fringes of the forest.

Sunset had turned into deep dusk, and now night has fallen. The Aes Sedai is still outside, gliding noiselessly over the grass under the dark of the moon. Silver fire sparks from her fingertips as she tests possibilities and considers threads.

Frequently, her gaze flicks upward as she scans rooftops and skies and the branches of trees.

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[blue_ajah]

"Among other things," she says. It may not be entirely helpful, but Moiraine has no intention of clarifying explicitly under the watchful eyes of the owls.

"And there are ways," she adds. The Aes Sedai looks directly at Kim. "Do you wish to learn?"

Her tone is perfectly calm, almost casual, but the question itself is anything but.

[agirllost]

Kim gets a feeling she's asking her more than if she just wants to learn one or two weaves.

She nods, "I would be honored to learn from you. I - when I was with...I want to learn how to use these abilities to help, not destroy."

[blue_ajah]

"You would not be the first student I brought to the White Tower, were you born to my world," Moiraine says quietly. "But you were not there born, and I would not take you there for training in any case, as matters are ... unsettled."

She considers Kim for a moment, and inclines her head.

"What the Dark One wishes, I oppose. What she has done, I will undo, if I can. You will have to study hard, and work harder, but you may go far; you have the potential in you to be very strong indeed, stronger than many I have known."

[agirllost]

A part of her rebels at the thought of going back to that world for training, but Moiraine is not Mesaana and even though she's having a hard time trusting people, she knows with a kind of fierce certainty that she can trust Moiraine, if only because they share similiar enemies.

Inwardly, she feels hope for the first time in weeks.

"I will do whatever it takes, Moiraine." And she means that, she views her waking up from that dream as a kind of second chance.