#I bought a sword recently cuz COOL

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

I just realized I'm straight up turning into my DnD character.

[kamisatomay018]

My Saviour: Part 8

Warnings: angst, mentions of bloodshed and fighting

Anddd we’re back with the angst! I kid you not, it took everything in me to write such angst cuz I love fluff and happy stories T-T but I assure you that my writing never ends with sad endings soo…I hope you Enjoy!

In just the blink of an eye, another month had gone by. You were as happy as you could ever be, and had been training with Thoma to learn how to use a Polearm. It took some convincing before Ayato could be comfortable with the idea, solely because he was afraid you’d get hurt. But he also knew the importance of being independent and strong, and was very proud of you for trying to become stronger each and every day. To your delight, you were learning quickly, and Thoma was a wonderful teacher. Training sessions with him were filled with laughter and encouragement, which you desperately needed. You also realised that you preferred handling a polearm more than a sword, which hadn’t come off as a major surprise to you. You would train daily with Thoma for 2 hours, after which you would get surprised with your favourite desserts and love filled kisses from Ayato. He had been very free in the recent days, staying home most of the time and you both cherished these free times as much as you could, making so many beautiful memories together.

Today, Ayato had decided to take you out on yet another date, which meant him spoiling you endlessly. He bought books, jewellery, clothes and accessories for you, wishing to pamper and spoil you rotten. After spending the day in Inazuma City, you both decided to take the walk back home through Chinju Forest, which looked ever so enchanting at night. As you both walked hand in hand, fireflies danced around you two with every step you took, illuminating the rather dark sky. The gentle sound of the stream and the cool breeze of air added to the romantic atmosphere.

But something seemed awry. As much as you enjoyed Ayato’s presence in this beautiful dark night, your conscience kept telling you that something was about to go wrong. “Love, what’s wrong? You seem so lost in thought, and your face shows distress.” You sighed softly, feeling your unease grow even more. “Ayato…something is wrong..something is about to happen, I can feel it in my heart..” As he looked at you, he grew worried, for your distress seemed very genuine. He cupped your cheeks softly, placing a tender kiss on your forehead. “Daarin, I’m here with you. I will protect you, I will keep you safe. Perhaps it’s just the darkness of the night that’s concerning you?” You hugged him close, shaking your head. “No Ayato..I mean it, something is wro-“ before you could finish your sentence, Ayato grabbed you by your shoulders, ducking behind a rock and you caught a glimpse of a Nobushi attacking in your direction swiftly.

Ayato instantly grew more protective, and 4 of his Shumatsubaan showed up from the shadows to protect their master and his beloved. You on the other hand were terrified. Had it not been for Ayato’s quick thinking, you would’ve been dead by now. “Ayato…” “hush my angel, everything will be alright hm? Stay here, please. The Shumatsubaan will keep you safe.” You clutched onto him tighter, not wanting to let him go as the unease in your heart only increased. “No..please Ayato don’t go out there!” Ayato placed a soft kiss on your forehead to calm you down before your hiding place could be found again. “Shhh..nothing will happen okay? You’re my brave girl aren’t you? Stay here, I’ll be back okay?” Before you could say anything else, he was gone with 2 of his men to fight. You prayed silently in your heart. “Please protect him almighty archons..”

Ayato drew his sword out, his amethyst eyes filled with anger. Someone had dared to attack his beloved in his presence. He would make sure they wouldn’t succeed. Such a perfect day, ruined because of this silly assassination attempt. He wasn’t unfamiliar with such situations. “Come out if you dare to face me. Cowardly attacks such as those are certainly not tolerated by the people of Inazuma.” At his words, 10 Nobushis appeared, closing in on him. He seemed unfazed and stood proudly, his hydro vision glowing. “You dare to lay a finger on my beloved? Some nerve you have.” And just like that, he began to fight expertly, killing almost all of the Nobushis alone. But it seemed like their foe didn’t stop right there. Another 13 appeared, making Ayato frown. An assassination attempt in such large numbers? He activated his elemental powers this time. “Cascade.”

You were still hidden behind the rock, watching your beloved fight. You knew he was strong, but something was wrong and you could feel it. Anyone who was trying to assassinate Ayato would be aware of his strength, and simple Nobushi would not be able to faze him. So what if- “Watch out Lady Hiragi!!” You gasped, a flash of red appearing in front of you as you quickly dodged the attack. There stood a Kairagi with pyro powers, ready to strike you. You were their target, you were the bait they would use to get to Ayato. The Shumatsubaan guarding you immediately started fighting, but you knew in your heart that they would be no match. To your utter shock, 5 more Kairagi appeared, surrounding the area where you were. Although the fear in your heart was overpowering, you couldn’t let it infiltrate your mind. Not yet. You had to think, you had to find a way to fight.

Ayato now stood between a pool of blood, having killed all the Nobushis. He now rushed to where you were, and to his horror, you were surrounded by Kairagis. Ayato saw red, immediately standing in front of you, shielding you wish his own self. “Kamisato Art: Suiyuu!” You watched as sharp hydro shards conjured, striking the enemies and hitting the flowers below. Although his ability seemed elegant and like rain to others, it was deadly to face. “Ayato- you’re injured!!” Your worried voice spoke, seeing the deep gash in his arm which wielded his sword. He breathed heavily, trying to suppress his pain so you wouldn’t worry too much. “Don’t worry my love-“ “sir, behind you!!” One of his Shumatsubaan yelled, and to both of your horrors, there stood another 10 Kairagi. Where were they even coming from, and what for?

You were now terrified, knowing that ayato was gravely injured and couldn’t go on like this. He ran ahead to fight yet again, and you were distraught. You needed to do something, you couldn’t just stand here and watch your lover get injured just to protect you. Not only that, but two of the Shumatsubaan had lost their lives trying to protect you both. Your heart ached, as your eyes frantically looked around. You spotted a spear on the ground that one of the Shumatsubaan was carrying. You picked it up, taking a deep breath. You could do this, you had to be brave. You rushed towards the fighting scene, your heart aching seeing Ayato getting tired, his wound paining him. His men were badly injured, and it felt like a losing battle. No, you refused to lose like this, you refused to die like this.

You felt something stir within you, a sense of anger, love, protection and bravery. You saw the Kairagi advance towards ayato, and you held the spear strongly in your hand, and in a single, swift motion, aimed and threw it in their direction, instantly killing two of the Kairagi, impaling them through their hearts. Ayato was stunned, turning his head back to see you standing there, breathing heavily. You picked up another spear from the injured Shumatsubaan, rushing towards him. “Ayato! You’re gravely injured!” He gave you a weak smile, standing up with your help. “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine-“ “Ayato, watch out!!”

The next moments that Ayato witnessed were perhaps the most horrifying moments of his entire life. Time seemed to slow down as you pushed him aside, only to get slashed by the searing blade of a Kairagi. You let out a shaky gasp, dropping to your knees as your crimson blood stained your clothes and the green grass. Ayato let out a shriek of pure agony and pain, his hydro powers gaining newfound strength as they caused all the enemies around you both to die instantly. Tears fell uncontrollably from his eyes, as he held your weak and bleeding figure close. “Y/N!! No, no my love why..” you smiled weakly, placing your trembling hand on his cheek. “A..ayato…” His tears knew no bounds, he was mortified, guilt stricken and unable to believe that he had failed to protect you. “Y..you’ll be okay Daarin..H..hang on, I’ll get you to a doctor..”

You coughed weakly, looking up at the love of your life with a blurred vision. “I..I love you..” Ayato seemed to cry even more at those words, shaking his head, pulling you closer. “I love you too, and I want to hear you say these words to me for the rest of my life, understand? You’re not leaving me like this Y/N, please!” He then heard the sounds of swords being wielded, and to his pure horror, there stood 3 more Kairagi. He had lost his will to fight now, holding you close to his chest. Is this how everything was going to end? Just when his life had started becoming perfect and happy, this was how him and his love would face their ends? Ayato himself was barely holding himself together, heavily wounded, his heart completely broken and his hopes also shattered. At least, as selfish as he sounded, he would get to die with you. He closed his eyes, waiting for the wretched enemies to just end his pain and suffering once and for all.

[pacificpurgatory]

06/17/2024

June 17th, 2024

REI has been my BFF as of late TBH…

THIS SUMMER i’m trying to cultivate a hippie troubadour-type vibe. go places, meet ppl, make stuff… need to get my dad lore 🆙

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK (!!) is gorgeous. i’d like to visit every national park in America at some point. this was the first one (since i became an adult and started counting, sorry Zion 🤭) i have a poster with all of them on it and and spaces to write the dates you visit them under each.

i bought a used book on wildflowers in the olympic mountains and identified the ones i came across. there weren’t too many in bloom because it’s still cold i assume. i also was looking for mushrooms but i couldn’t find any 🍄 i might return to washington next month for mount rainier. it rains so much 🌧️ i listened to a lot of Nirvana and The Microphones

i like wearing a big backpack when i hike cuz i feel like a mysterious wandering merchant selling various exotic wares. or an adventurer on a quest to save the princess.

this trail called storm king requires you to climb using ropes to get to the very top. i didn’t plan on doing that part at first but i have been trying to do things that i’m scared of recently so i did it anyway ⭐️ amazing view

so many ppl kept passing me on the way up…. i need to fix my cardio so bad 🏃 too much geek bar and penjamin damaged my lungs i fear 😔

i went to da beach and hiked along it. walking back, i found the perfect stick to hold. it had a slight curve in it like a samurai sword. before i die, i need to get good at surfing 🏄 how am i from hawaii and can’t surf? tragic. one day, i’ll live by the ocean again

last stop was hoh rainforest. kind of mid imo, but i did the easiest trail cuz i had to leave soon. too many people there, felt more like disneyland than nature

i managed to check out the bridge Kurt Cobain lived under in Aberdeen. that was cool 🎸 there’s like a memorial there

traveling solo has been pretty good for my self-esteem and confidence 🤔 u have to believe in urself in order to do it and also to have a good time/enjoy yourself alone

[myidlethinkings]

So my girlfriend has been trying to have me read the Wheel of Time series since when she was just my best friend. I picked back up the second book recently but it's been a while since I read the first and she went on this massive "YOU WON'T REMEMBER EVERYTHING FROM THE FIRST BOOK, LET ME TELL YOU"

This led to her Wheel of Time in 5 Minutes ™ lecture/rant and... I had to share this with the world. Enjoy.

Obviously every spoiler for the first book. You've been warned.

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k, eye of the world in 5 mins.

begins in the two rivers, emonds field, is gonna be bel tine and everyones all excited. rand lives further afield with his father and theyre bringing in brandy for the inn. rands all omg someones watching me as theyre getting in, tams all i cant see anything, rands all mustv imagined it. they get there. they hear theres going to be a gleeman. meets up with his bestie perrin and LOVER mat I WILL GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP who are both like yeah we totes saw the figure too. they go we'll tell the mayor tomorrow.

they see the gleeman thom and theyre all omg a gleeman, omg. then the two strangers, moiraine, who is the best character ever to character in any universe fucking fight me on that and lan, who are asking questions about the area and people and moiraines like oh hi child to nynaeve the wisdom whose like im the fucking wisdom bitch who the fuck are you. she then says to the boys hey here have this coin which is totally a normal coin cuz i might have errands and shit and theyre like holy shit anything you want.

then he sees egwene and hes all like omg the love of my life will you dance with me tomorrow at bel tine and shes all yeah sure in the afternoon cuz i got shit to do in the morning and hes all like wut? and shes all GETTIN MAH HAIR BRAIDED YO and hes all like holy shit that means shes marriagable, holy shit man.

then the peddler paidan fain rocks up and gets everyone in a frenzy over war wherever and false dragons and logain or whoever else.

rand and tam go back to the farm overnight before the festivities begin. shit goes down. trollocs smash in, rands all OMG TROLLOCS ARENT REAL THO LIKE WUT and tams all, fly you fool and rand runs into the woods. but then hes all, i cant fucken leave my father so he creeps back and in the shadows he sees tam creeping around with a sword and rands like DAFUQ why does he have a sword, fighting ensues, tam gets hurt, is dying, rand manages to get him back to emonds field with a figure trailing them.

tams delirious, starts talking about rands dead mother and then starts talking about a battle and how they all poured over the dragonwall and that it was snowing but it was so hot, battle is always hot and she was a warrior even though she was pregnant and she gave birth and died and how he took the baby and rand was all WUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. im gonna ignore that shit.

gets to emonds field. everything is in ruins. trollocs wrecked the shit there too. nynaeve is all like sorry dude, your dads gonna die. hes all fuck that, gets back to the inn where the gleemans like hey that ladys an aes sedai, she could heal him but i totally wouldnt because you never know what they ask for in price and rands all i dont care because HE IS MY FATHER. MY FATHER. HEEEEE. ISSSS. MYYYY. FATHERRRRR. thoms all, holy shit dude calm down hes your father. moiraine, the best character in the universe, heals tam, then shes all like look, you three boys need to come with me and rands all, well shit she makes sense and they go but then egwenes hiding too and shes all bitch im adventuring too and rands all AHHHH and moiraines all huh the wheel weaves what the wheel wills, whatevs, and they go on, with thom whose also like this place is boring asf, im coming on.

they head out, dragkhar fly overhead, moiraine like a mofo destroys them, they get to tarren ferry, cross on the ferry, then coincidentally theres a whirlpool and the ferrys destroyed when theyre on the other side and egwenes like HOLY SHIT YOU DID THAT and moiraines all cuz im fucking awesome and nobody can follow us now so stfu and they head on.

rand interrupts a lesson with moiraine teaching egwene the true source cuz egwenes got it. rands all FUCKING WTF and thoms all dude, leave it, you cant do a thing about it. Shes gone now. Why don’t you bang mat instead. I mean the mat comment never happened but I will ship them till my dying breath. moiraines all to egwene youll die if i dont teach you, there was another back in emonds who also had it but she managed to survive/channel in her own way.

egwene starts to unbraid her hair. rand has a crying fit. egwenes all fuck off man, i do what i want. mydraal and shit attack them, they get to baerlon safely. where the gatekeepers like the children of the light are around but they cant cause much trouble cuz the city watch hate them and the whitecloaks are little bitches. they get to baerlon. mat and rand walk around. they see a few of the whitecloaks, dane bornhold a young man leading the small group. mats like lol, watch this, enters a shop, climbs up the top and hurls a rock at them, loosening barels. rand has started to feel feverish and when the barrels nearly knock them over, rand stands there and doesnt hide and rands like lol and danes like dafuq are you looking at and rands like im looking at you what are YOU looking at and hes feeling really odd and reckless and danes like are you a darkfriend and steps forward but then the city guards turn up who hates the whitecloaks and they face each other off and mat hauls rand off all are you fucking insane, you faced him off and rands recklessness leaves him and he freaks out and they flee.

throughout this time and through the book all three have dreams but i cant be bothered to get into those, theyre basically all the dark one figuring out who is who, and they wake up after rats backs were broken in the dream to be all oh hey it was just dreams though, to find rats dead all over the place and other stuff. Moiraine told them early on to go to her if they have dreams and the boys talk about it and theyre like we should probably tell her but nah, she saes sedai and like, its just dreams yo, yeah a few rats end up dead but cool, its fine, we’re fine.

oh baerlons also where he meets min who can see things around them, like with him a sword that is not a sword and three women on his funeral pyre weeping and with perrin she sees wolves and mat dice and with lan seven broken towers and a baby in a cradle with a sword and blah blah. And she says she can see he loves egwene and egwene loves him too but theyre not for each other, at least not in the way they want to be.

then he returns and nynaeve is there and she is PISSED and is all like we're going home now and moiraine manages to convince her they are in trouble and nynaeves like ..... i dont trust you, but fine. and lans all how did you find us and shes all i tracked you bitches and hes all like, huh.

rand says to her later about MY FATHER HE IS MY FATHERRRR and nynaeves all awkwardly like er yeah totally, i totally dont remember when your father returned after adventuring with an outlander wife, that totally explains your red hair, er yea sure. but that above all they loved him as much as they wouldv loved any baby.

oh a bunch of times during the book people startle at him and him being so tall with red hair and grey eyes and say he resembles an aiel. oh, theyre also ta'veren, so extra special they draw people into doing stuff with their lives, they effect the pattern. moiraine also says the two rivers used to be manetheran, a fabled kingdom. that night shit happens and they run off. they run, fight, attack, fight, as they battle mat starts yelling out things in an old language he doesnt know, that moiraine says was a manetheran war cry and the old blood still sings.

theyre going to get outrun in battle and against moiraines judgement lan takes them to an old crumbling city shadar logoth which fell to the darkness and even trollocs and mydraal dont like entering it.

oh also tam gave rand the sword which is a heron marked blade and lans all like er only blademasters have these why did your father have one and rands all HES MAHHH FATHERRRRRR and lans all yeah but how and rands all he bought it from a merchant years before and lans all yeah that sounds totally legit.

they go into shadar logoth, the boys sneak off, meet mordeth whose all like lol here take the treasure and mats like cool but rands like holy shit he doesnt have a shadow and then mordeth goes all rahhhh and the three manage to escape and they return and ramble about what happened and moiraines like DID HE GIVE YOU ANYTHING and theyre all like no and mats like er totally didnt and moiraines like we have to move and they leave but then this shadow thing that can kill them separates them and theyre all separated and perrin and egwene fall into a river together, and nynaeve finds moiraine and lan and is all like I will cut you aes sedai for what you’ve done to all of us and moiraine is all lol, and rand and mat with thom end up on a ship, the spray, with bayle domon and theyre worried he’ll throw them overboard cuz of the trollocs that chased them but domon seems to think theyre after him.

moiraines like with the coins i can track them, but two of them have lost their coins (paying for passage on domons ship). perrin and egwene roam around a lot, finally meet up with a man elyas who can communicate with wolves. aes sedai once tried to gentle him because of it but it has nothing to do with the one power so it didnt do anything. theres hints he used to be a warder, but now he hangs out in the wilderness. he says perrin has the same thing, perrin freaks out. elyas is like ill take you to the next city cuz you guys are lost. they then meet up with the tuatha'an, the tinkers, who roam around and dont harm anyone even if theyre to be harmed. perrin cant reconcile that, hes all how can you defeat evil by that, but in turn they pity him as hes such a young, sad, violent man with his axe. his eyes start turning gold like elyas' and he starts to communicate with wolves like hopper and a bunch of them though he tries to deny it.

egwene dances with aram, one of the tinkers and perrins all wow what about rand and they eventually leave, though aram is restless for a tinker.

the leader asks elyas if hes found the song which is their formalities, elyas is all no we havent. the leader then tells him of a story he heard, of an aiel who crossed the waste and died, to tell them that leafblighter means to blind the eye of the world. then she died. they leave and then they then meet afoul of the whitecloaks who are fighting whatever and bornhold - danes father – and byar catches them. through the ordeal perrin kills two of the whitecloaks while hes being all half wolf in the battle and they take them in to be questioned.

nynaeve and moiraine/lan end up finding them, releasing them, the wolves assist, nynaeve gets left behind, lans all about to get her, moiraine reminds him of his oaths, nynaeve turns back up.

meanwhile rand/mat are at whitebridge and mats starting to get sick and suspicious. he had a dagger from shadar logoth. a mydraal finds them, thom hurtles his flute and harp at them, says to go, to leave. hes saving them because he once had a nephew who could channel and the red ajah gentled him, while thom was having an affair with the queen morgase of andor when he was a court bard and by the time he got to owen it was too late and hed not survived, which he always regretted and then because he left morgase the way he did she was pissed at him too. rand and mat run for it, rand sobbing that thom is dead.

they go from village to village to village, mat getting sicker and sicker, a young woman who ends up being a darkfriend tries to kill them, they escape. rand keeps thinking he sees padan fain the peddlar from home, whose actually a darkfriend.

moiraine tells nynaeve she has the power too, nynaeve has a mini breakdown. moiraine said it would have begun with a doing something she desperately needed then a few days later collapsing really ill and the illness disappearing quickly. nynaeve once said egwene had gotten sick as a child and shed healed her not knowing how, then gotten sick. moiraine says thats also how she found them to begin with, in the city, she could sense egwene.

rand and mat go to a poor inn, they try to rob them by locking them in the back. mats getting sick and even more paranoid. rand is terrified when he realises theyre going to sell them to a darkfriend and he prowls and prowls till the room theyre in explodes, the wall crumbling. rand doesnt know how but he thinks he did it himself. mat becomes blinded from it and starts sobbing.

they escape. on the run again. as mat is blind, rand takes care of him and mat in his illness is worried that rand will abandon him which rand would never do because mat is the LOVE OF HIS LIFE, rand ends up really sick, paralleling what moiraine said what happened to nynaeve.

they end up hitching a ride to caemlyn where they expect moiraine to find them, if shes still alive. the buggy driver talks about the queen. how elayne is the daughter heir and her brother is the first prince of the sword. its been tradition forever that the daughter heirs go to tar valon to train and the princes go be taught by warders. he mentioned tigraine who was the queen before morgaise, who disappeared mysteriously nearly twenty years ago, who left behind a son galad. morgaise married the husband and became queen and while she had elayne and gawyn, galad lives with them too, now the husband is dead. oh, also logain the false dragon is being presented to the queen as prisoner before the aes sedai take him to tar valon to gentle him.

they get to caemlyn, mats REALLY sick. rand leaves him at an inn, tries to go see the false dragon being brought in. he meets loial an ogier whose nice, whose like 90 but really young for an ogier to have left his stedding without permission. rand ends up thinking he sees paidan, but doesnt have a good feeling, tries to run off, falls into a castle garden. meets elayne the daughter heir who might actually be the most annoying character to exist, her brother gawyn. theyre like omg you look like an aiel. elayne then talks about gareth bryne the guard captain dude she ships hard with her mother. galad MY MOST PURE CHARACTER WHO I LOVE FUCK ELAYNE (not a spoiler, his name is of the most pure camelot round table knight) rocks up, is all, holy you broke into the palace. elayne whose a bitch is like how DARE YOU YOURE NOT MY BROTHERRRR and galads all we are siblings and my duty is to protect you and shes all you wont do anything with this rand ill invoke protection, then galad goes and tells the guards because theres literally a false dragon being brought in and tension is on the rise in caemlyn and hes taken to see morgase.

the red ajah elaida is freaked out by him, knows hes taveren, has a bit of a prophecy but it doesnt really mean much and morgaise is all look, we cant just arrest everyone, let him go.

he then races back to the inn, moiraine and everyones there, they all hug, then hes all like oh yeah mats sick btw. moiraine goes up and mats not just sick hes now tainted. she does the best she can but is all like he needs to get to tar valon to have the bond between him and the dagger properly severed. then moiraine meets loial who randomly talks about an event concerning the eye of the world. perrins all oh yeah thats like the dead aiel girl the tinkers spoke about. that changes the plans once moiraine realises the dark ones trying to get to the eye and shes like we cant get to tar valon yet we gotta leave now. they use the ways which loail knows how to use cuz ogier and male aes sedai made them together centuries before but now the ways are tainted.

theyre like the worlds between the worlds, can get to places quicker but it has the black wind thatll kill you. blah blah blah they use the ways, nearly die, but get to fal dara/shienar, which is sort of where lan is from. nynaeve confesses her love, lans all no i cannot, i cannot offer anything. it ends up that his parents had the throne but his ... there was scheming. His uncles wife wrecked everything, she escaped with her baby into the blight, lans cousin, nobodys seen or heard of them, moiraine suspects isam might be alive but GASP keeps it from lan. the seven towers crumbled, lan has a death wish, he believes hes the only one left so must die.

lord agelmar wishes lan would rise up the banner of the golden crane because everything about the blight is crumbling, lans like no, i have a new oath now with moiraine. lord ingtar is a fight me soldier who fanboys after lan. theres a battle going on in tarwins gap they desperately need help for, but lan says he cant. lord agelmar orders ingtar to accompany them to the blight and leave them cuz moiraines like we cant have anyone else come with us.

Paidan fain by this point has rocked up to shienar and tried to wheedle his way into the good graces of lord agelmar but hes all wtf you look like a creeper and throws him in a cell. Moiraines like I need to question him at some point.

moiraine then takes them into the blight to find the green man who can take them to the eye of the world. the green man rocks up, hes made of vines and flowers, takes them to the eye. two forsaken rock up. moiraine tries to fight, is knocked out, nynaeve and lan get knocked out, the boys run. the green man is destroyed by the forsaken. rand ends up destroying the forsaken, goes into the eye, channels the male source in there, realises he can channel, has a fight with the dark one - whose still bound under the seals, but rand believes he ended the dark one and its done. comes out, the others are recovering. brings out an old banner from the eye thats the dragons banner, broken seals from the dark ones prison, and the horn of valere. moiraine is all, we need to take these to tar valon. rands all, you do that, but im done with aes sedai, im not going to tar valon. im done. the dark ones dead and im going to do my own thing. he turns to egwene who backs away from him when he said he channeled, then she bursts into tears and hugs him and says shes sorry.

they return to shienar, fal dara, where there was a miracle in tarwins gap where they believed they saw the creator and that the light took on flesh - they saw an apparition of a man they didnt know as rand fighting the battle he fought. ingtars flipping his shit because he missed the battle while accompanying them, and then not even being able to accompany them the entire way. After all of his talking about going after a week rand is still there, finishing his sword practice with Lan in Agelmar's private garden and meets up with Egwene. He tells her that he will go away. Egwene asks him to come to Tar Valon with her and Nynaeve, itll totes be fun, I mean theres the red ajah and shit wholl attack him if they know but hey itll be fun, but Rand refuses. He says he'll never channel again. When she asks him if he'll be going home, he tells her that he'll never go home.

Moiraine is underneath Agelmar's private garden. She uses her blue teardrop thing she wears on her forehead to focus her eavesdropping on Rand and Egwene. Using it to eavesdrop was the first use of the One Power she had learned as a young girl in the royal palaces of Cairhieren.

Smiling, she says, "The Prophecies will be fulfilled. The Dragon is Reborn."

the end.