Drabbles of life after 2 (Wheel of Time fanfiction)

WoTtober 2024 #7 Saidin

Thom stood behind the chair Moiraine was instructed to sit in. She could feel him worrying but couldn't really put him at ease. She might as well admit to herself that she was a little scared.

"Remember, Moiraine," Nynaeve was saying, "Saidin has been cleansed and I would not let this man touch you if I thought he was affected by the taint. He's been one of those always loyal to Rand and..."

"I trust you, Nynaeve Sedai," Moiraine said, cutting into the middle of the word flow. "I agreed to try any means you deemed wort to try. Let's just do this."

She knew there were things those asha'men could do that Aes Sedai or the Kin could only wish for. Nynaeve filled her in even before proposing this attempt. She would gladly regain her full connection to the One Power, whatever necessary.

The moment the young man touched her head, she could feel the familiar shudder of delving going through her, even though she could not really see the weaves. There was a moment Saidin touched her deep inside her very being, the place connected with the channelling and from where she drew all the strings. She gasped when a pain shot through her body and she and the young man hissed at the same time. They looked at each other and she knew even before he said anything that there was nothing he could do. Her connection was not severed, like with those stilled or gentled, there was nothing broken to be healed.

"I'm sorry," he said.