Moiraine & Lan | The Wheel of Time

"Stop pretending, Moiraine. I think you’re afraid. You don’t want me to know how weak you feel. How unprepared. Overwhelmed. Because then you’ll have to face it yourself."

MOIRAINE SEDAI and LAN MANDRAGORAN in WHEEL OF TIME 2.08

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖊𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊 (2x08)

Stop pretending, Moiraine. I think you're afraid. You don't want me to know how weak you feel. How unprepared. Overwhelmed.Because then you'll have to face it yourself. You can't hurt me anymore, Moiraine. It took me a long time to accept what you said, about us not being equals, but I understand it now. And I believe in what you do, even now, when I know not half of it. The only reason that I was able to say that you're not my equal is that I've known one thing to be true since the first day we met. You have always been my better. Let me back in.

The Wheel of Time season 2 sneak peek.

The Wheel of Time 2x08 I've known one thing to be true since the first day we met. You have always been my better.

This was intimate and sensual. These two have such an amazing chemistry. Their relationship is so precious to me 🤷‍♀️

All of the tender ways in which Lan always touches Moiraine with his hands. He is so soft and protective and inherently respectful, but he will kill for her in an instant without question.

I am absolutely feral for this dynamic.

*me waiting on Season 3*

waiting for this weeks episode is so hard...

the anticipation mixed with my hopes and fears!!!

Dear Light don't let Moiraine do anything stupid! Dear Light let them get some sense into this woman!

Siuan is clever as a pike right ? She got this? Please?

(And I want to really see the flashback)

Declaring myself as part of the minority that ships Lan and Moiraine ✨

Moiraine & Lan | The Wheel of Time

The interesting thing is that their hair is dry, their clothes are a little wet, but they were literally thrown full body into the water. And she came out looking stylish and in control of everything!

Episode 06 gives new light about Lan letting Moiraine go that easily on episode 02. Even though he says he needs the bond to understand her, i think he is underestimanting their bond beyond the magical one. But the fact is he knows her, knows how stubborn she is, knows she wouldn't stop her attempt to push him away. So he needed a bigger weapon, someone that doesn't need a magic bond to read moiraine entirely and someone that is able to disarm her and also understands the connection to the one power. Someone that loves Moiraine as much he loves her.

The Wheel of Time 2x08 What Was Meant to Be

ghost of you

Wheel of Time || Moiraine/Lan

Lan is agitated, defensive, and Moiraine gets the distinct sense he’s not really hearing what she’s trying to say.  He knows she wants to mask the bond, give him a chance to visit his family in the kind of utter privacy she values, and he wants to tell her not to do it.  Moiraine thinks, not for the first time, that she’s quite lucky to have a Warder with such strength of will.  A lesser man would have succumbed to madness long ago, being left to his own devices so often. “I like her, you know.  The Wisdom.” It is true, because it has to be.  Moiraine cannot lie.  She does like Nynaeve, in the way one admires something she may never fully understand.  Much of Nynaeve’s insolence she files away with the rest, the others’ baffling tendency to disbelieve and doubt her even when she is being as forthright as is physically possible, baseless and tiresome at the very best of times.  Sometimes, however, Moiraine can understand Nynaeve’s suspicion to be borne of a genuine sense of responsibility, not merely to her charges, but to anyone she views as unable to protect himself. And on that note, she is not a little grateful to Nynaeve.  It’s not every channeler who would call upon the One Power to save the life of a Warder not her own.  It’s not every channeler who could, even if she wanted to.  Much has been whispered in recent days of the tragedy of a Warder who outlives his Aes Sedai, but the reverse is often almost as true.  Moiraine imagines, perhaps fancifully, that she would handle losing Lan even worse than he would handle losing her.

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