You don't mess with the Bashere ladies

Quick Deira Bashere after a long and eventful train journey because she's pretty badass and hot

"And took whatever price they wanted."

I row beside you.

"This came down inches from my face, Caraline, and it has your markings!"

oh sweet baby jeebus yes

showing up one week late with a crack doodle for the poll but let Lanfear and Moiraine kiss instead of fighting

"I see sparks of light trying to fill the shadows, and the shadows trying to swallow the sparks."

Matrim "Mat" Cauthon, "a boy, really"

Perrin Aybara, blacksmith, Goldeneyes

Rand al'Thor, sheepherder, Dragon Reborn

Egwene al'Vere, the Innkeeper's daughter, novice of the White Tower

Nynaeve al'Meara, Wisdom of the Two Rivers Novice of the White Tower

when you're a little lesbian Green at the White Tower training grounds and your sisters are more interested in making out than making gains.

diverging from @romans-art's excellent Seonid and her boys for a good cause (even buffer Seonid)

"While it's fresh. I need everyone to tell me what they saw and heard, so that I can write it down. There will never be a better time."

Of all the accounts Loial gathered in Thakan'dar that day, the Aes Sedai's proved the most difficult to acquire. Those who remained were elusive, bustling around the Healing tents and churned fields. Nynaeve Sedai and her helpers, paying no heed to the fragility of Humans, were bringing back from the brink of death so many that a constant flow of barely healed soldiers and channelers shuffled toward the Travelling grounds, freeing much-needed beds inside the tents.

Moiraine Sedai would not answer his inquiries about the events at Shayol Ghul either, intent as she was on the care of a drawn, but gently chiding Tairen woman.

"The tingle was unusual."

Thank you so much for the analysis and kind words! It makes me so excited and thankful when people sink their teeth into the connections between different media.

To provide a little spoilery context for the show, in The Wheel of Time, Siuan, the black woman standing up, is the equivalent of the magic pope at the head of the order to which Moiraine, the kneeling white woman, belongs. The reverence in this case is both ritual and transgression, as Siuan isn't supposed to love anyone, sacred as her person is. Moiraine owes her respect, but their love predates Siuan's rise to that position. So, that devotion is older, deeper than what their ancient institution dictates. And in this universe, the belief system is centered on reincarnation: whatever time together is gifted to them in this life, both believe they will find each other in the next life. So it is an eternal devotion.

The poem itself alludes to several aspects of their relationship: Siuan's power, Moiraine's despised surname, the cyclical nature of time and belief in reincarnation in this universe, the wild secluded haven where they meet, and finally the title of the book where their relationship is more explored - "New Spring."

I hope you don't mind me adding this. Your commentary made my day and I wanted to keep it on my blog. Thank you again!

I want to do with you what new spring does with the cherry trees. (x x)

I want to do with you what new spring does with the cherry trees. (x x)