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Post by Moiraine on May 9, 2004 1:25:44 GMT -5
**ooc Since someone locked the rp down, or it screwed up.. Im starting from where we left off!***
Tristan picked up the woman as they started for the door. They would go see the herbwoman and find out what she knew about this Nikki woman...
She led them down the stairs and out the servants entrance. Tristan laid the wreched woman down on the floor again and she stepped up with his help. He started the way and they were at the herb womans place shortly.
When she exited she smiled at Tristan "Tristan, stay here with her, I will not be long" she finished turning so he could not argue. She felt a sudden flash of fear course through her. The last time she was here, it was to be delivered into the hands of the woman that kidnapped her. She calmed herself infront of the door.
Not knocking, she grabbed the door knob and walked right in. The woman there startled and nearly dropping the tea pot she held. She knocked the woman back with a weave of air, sending her back against the wall. She was a threat to her life and she could defend it now as she would have then
"I want to know what they wanted me for. Anything you know woman. Anything and everything they may have said." She hissed. Anger passing through the bond, she tried to control. Tristan was not needed here.
The woman sobbed " I ... They.. hurt me Mistress.. they said they would kill..me ... they have done it before!" she finished.
She raised an eyebrow " They have done this before? Have you turned over another sister? What are you doing woman! Why did you not send for my help! You have been in my service for years! YEARS!" she yelled.
The woman noticably shivered over her entire body, her sobs almost to much to bear. This was not her way of handling things. She let the weave of air go and the woman feel to her knees. Gripping at the hem of her skirt she begged "Please.. forgive me mistress. Forgive me!"
She waited for the woman to calm down enough to answer her questions. She felt for the woman. She probably wouldnt have been able to send help for her. It was the way of things. Everyone was expendable but a certain few.
"They take them to Falme, they make them .... put collars on... They are looking for someone in paticular. Some one of the Blue Ajah. They do not say who. I swear it Mistress. I swear it on my dead Blane!"she said half crying half serious. She believed the woman. "The last was Anyai Sedai. That is all Mistress!" the woman threw herself at her feet sobbing and begging forgiveness.
Anyai was one of her sisters the one that had not sent word from here last year. It was thought she was still in the world working. There were so many out of the Tower, it was not something worried over if it were a blue sister.
She looked down at the woman "Pack me all the tea that you have, and hurry about it. I will forgive you Woman but you will not be so trusted anymore amoungst the Blue Ajah. Hurry I said!" she hissed and turned to the door, peeking out to show Tristan she was ok.
The woman came to her with a sack full of tea and provisions for the road. She managed a smile for the woman and strode out the door and to Tristan, Filling him in on the things she learned quickly.
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Post by Tristan on May 9, 2004 1:50:05 GMT -5
He sat and waited, patiently his eyes on the woman, Nikki, Moraine had named her. He kept hs face stilled and watched. When Moraine returned she was still hot under the collar, he could tell before she exited the building.
Tristan soaked in the information, thinking as she told him what had happened. He nodded and listened, watching the eyes on Nikki's face widen at certain places. He had met Anyai, when she had been in the Borderlands, he had liked her as well. "We can talk more at the Inn." He said bustling her into the coach and climbing into the drivers seat. Checking to make sure that the doors were closed an setting off.
Once they were at the Inn, he led Nikki up to the room they all shared. Moraine leading him. Once inside he turned to her. "It makes it more dangerous to go, but more imperative as well. We cannot allow them to be kidnapping Aes Sedai and training them to that leash."
Taking a deep breath, "these Seanchan, they are nothing but men and can be beaten. We cannot let them sap at our strength and turnus against one another. We must stop this 'trade' before it becomes common."
"The only thing that remains is what to do with her?"
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Post by Moiraine on May 9, 2004 2:12:47 GMT -5
The hussled back to the Inn and back up to their room. She looked at the sister. She was awake and she chose to keep her that way. She wove a shield around her, tying it off. "You try to break it, and I will drug you again, you hear? Answer me child!" she hissed. The woman nodded a yes.
She turned to Tristan letting the woman hear " No we cannot let this happen, but I do not wish to be caught in one of those leashes either." She pondered the idea a bit. "We could use her as bait." she said, loud enough for the woman to hear.
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Post by Tristan on May 9, 2004 2:17:54 GMT -5
He nodded at the suggestion. "That is what I was thinking. Use her in the place you were supposed to be, I doubt the Seanchan will care one way or the other who does the bringing, so long as they get what they want. Besides if she is unco-operative we can always kill her later."
He stopped, looked at Nikki, and back to Moraine. "It hink that plan is as good as any. I would prefer to travel overland this time, ship would be quicker, but overland safer I think. Either way i need to make arrangements."
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Post by Moiraine on May 9, 2004 16:06:41 GMT -5
She smiled to Tritan, a small tight smile, knowing the woman could hear them. The woman gasped at them and stared frightened.
"Yes Gaidin, I believe that is a good Idea, See to the preperations and we are to leave immediatly. I will take care of this one now so she will be no trouble" She said that and turned to mix the tea.
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Post by Tristan on May 9, 2004 16:25:15 GMT -5
"Give me two hours, to gather some things we will need." Waiting for her assent he turned and left.
Returning sometime later having disposed of the coach and horses and gathered supplies and a plain carriage for carrying them and the supplies. He loaded everything into the carriage. Finally raising Nikki from the floor and speaking to her softy but harshly. Her eyes widened and she nodded. He then let her go, and turned to Moraine, "We are ready." He waited for Moriane to lead the way, Nikki falling in behind them and mounting the coach with Moraine. Tristan climbed into the drivers seat and started the coach off, leaving the Tear behind. They left near to midday and only travelled a few hours, before stopping and setting up camp. After everthing was arranged and Nikki was settled into a bed roll, bound and gagged. She had been much more compliant with orders recently and that seemed to be due to the words Tristan had with her in the Inn.
He settled next to Moraine, "We need a cover story for travelling, at least until we reach the Seanchan. I was thinking that Nikki is your run away little sister and is being brought back home after runnign from the marriage arranged for her. This gives us cause if it should become necessary to bind her again and no one would question the right of family to bring home a run away."
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Post by Moiraine on May 9, 2004 16:57:40 GMT -5
She watched as Tristan whispered into the womans ear. She tried to strain to hear it, but could not. She looked at Tristan he just smiled, not telling her what he said. She shook it off and watched as the woman followed more cooperatively.
Once they were on she became irritated not knowing what it was that he said. She would not ask though. He would have to tell her.
Tristan came up with a good story and she Agreed to it with a nod and smile.
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Post by Tristan on May 9, 2004 17:44:11 GMT -5
He looked at her as she sat in silence, feeling the irritation in the bond, but unclear of what it was for. He rose again after she agreed to the story and checked on Nikki as he made his way around the perimiter. Returning again to the fire and still feeling the irritation.
"What is eating at you Moraine?"
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Post by Moiraine on May 9, 2004 17:53:06 GMT -5
She looked at him "What did you say, to that woman?" she asked. It was irritating that all that she had done to the woman did nothing. He speaks to her privately and the woman is like a behaved little girl with braids in her hair!
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Post by Tristan on May 9, 2004 17:56:10 GMT -5
"I threatened her with a fate worse than death for her. Being turned back over to her fellow darkfriends following all this, knowing that it was her who betrayed them."
"Would you want to be turned over to your fellow sisters if they knew t was you who had, in theory, betrayed them?"
"It scares her more than us, because she can imagine what they would do to her."
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Post by Moiraine on May 9, 2004 18:33:29 GMT -5
She smiled. She knew better than to worry. He would take care of things. Trust in her Gaidin was absolutly necessary.
"I am sorry Tristan, That I even asked." She smiled and watched him as they rode on. She like how he worked with things. She only hoped that Nothing happened in Falme and that she herself was not in any danger.
She knew it was a long shot, but perhaps they could get in and out with trouble. A long winded hope indeed.
Her thoughts filled with memories of Falme.....
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Post by Tristan on May 9, 2004 18:56:00 GMT -5
He nodded to her apology, "It just wasn't an important thing Moraine." He finished his meal and took her dirtied dishes as well and washed them, returning them to the chest. Then he took another stroll around the camp, making sure all was quiet.
Returning to the fire he sat down across from her and looked at her through the fire.
"This game will be dangerous Moraine, if we play false we will pay with our lives." He took a drink from his mug and looked back to her. "I heard a whisper yesterday of another sister in Tear, apparently heading this direction as well. I was hoping to catch her today, but maybe tomorrow."
She nodded to that and looked up. He could see the tiredness in her face and smiled at her. "And now it is time to put you to bed." He said rising from his seat.
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Post by Moiraine on May 10, 2004 3:41:16 GMT -5
She considered the thought, a sister coming this way could be good or bad. After all that had happened she dared not assume either.
When he suggested to her that she needed sleep, she would have fought, but she was clearly tired, the bond must have told him that.
He came to her and helped her to her bedroll. She carelessly used up strength not trusting the tea to work. She channeled and often to tie off and check her shields.
A man fit to be her warder. A warder fit for an Aes Sedai. He was getting good at finding her emotions even when they were not in the bond. Tired she was. And sleep fell upon her quickly.
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Post by Tristan on May 10, 2004 14:26:58 GMT -5
He settled in and watched as Moraine went to bed, snuggling into her bedroll and falling off into a deep sleep quickly. He thought to himself 'This bond had it's uses, such as telling when she was sleeping and when she was feigning. Of course I can't let her know that.' He waited and mades sure the Nikki was asleep as well, but the snores coming from her were not those of a woken person. He walked the perimieter of the camp and checked the horses and carriage.
Fetching another bucket of water he noticed a campfire through the woods, he thought about investigating it, but instead returned to camp, thinking.
He sat back by the fire and built it up, so it could be easily seen. He then settled himself at one end of the camp, wrapping his shifting cloak abot him and waiting to see what flies it drew.
After sitting for about an hour and a half, he heard someone trying to sneak through the woods. Doing a passable job of it as well. He sat and waited, just out of the light cast by the fire, watchign as the figure crept into the fire light. 'A woman?' he thought 'no wonder the sound was funny, she is wearing skirts' he kept himself fromshaking his head. He watched her move into the camp. he tried to send Moraine a warning through their bond, a feeling of unease, he hoped it would wake her.
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Post by Moiraine on May 10, 2004 15:11:13 GMT -5
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She was in the outside the farm helping her mother hang up the clothes to dry, she was telling her what it meant to be a woman. A talk she had dreaded and wanted for so long.........
She was sitting at a camp fire, on her yearly trip to Cairhien, a man came through the trees, she wrapped him up in flows of Air. His name was Tristan.
She remembered this being a happy day in her life, yet something was uneasy about...something....
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