She's heard talk of the calm before the storm, but there's no calm here. It's one front after another thudding against the shore, dumping its load of rain and wind and terror down on them just in time for the next to roll in. She can feel it in the air, and it makes her sick to her stomach ( Read more... )

Nynaeve knew, when the door returned, that she'd be going back to chaos, to war, and to a desperate uncertainty about whether there would be a tomorrow to plan for ( Read more... )

It's a madhouse, it's a charnel house, and for the span of a moment Nynaeve is frozen, pulled in every direction at once ( Read more... )

Her rooms in the House of Arch still don't feel like home, despite all that has been done to make them comfortable ( Read more... )

Nynaeve is brushing out her hair in the bedroom, still a little damp from her bath.

Quite likely she'd be sitting closer to the fire if she could be, but there's only so much proximity a human body can bear.

Pity, that.

All right. So the door won't open. Nynaeve has other means of travel at her disposal.

Or rather, Travel.

Which is why she is currently pacing a small square of grass outside, frowning thoughtfully at the ground.

She'll be here for some time, yet.

It's much better than sitting still.

Nynaeve unbraids her hair by rote, washes her face in a basin of cool water, and slips out of her dress and into a plain cotton nightgown.

Then she sits on her bed, one leg hanging down, toes barely brushing the plush carpet, hands folded tightly in her lap.

It is so tempting, in this moment, to embrace saidar, draw it in until all she can feel ( Read more... )

Ennis,

Well, it's good to see that you're keeping yourself busy, I suppose.

As yet I've seen neither hide nor hair of Jack, though I've been looking.

Did you manage to catch him before you left?

--Nynaeve

Moiraine had (one would assume kindly) offered Nynaeve the use of her study for the day, and the former Wisdom had taken full advantage of it ( Read more... )

1). She loves Lan above all else. And it is because of this that she will fight the Shadow at all costs. Well, almost all ( Read more... )