A bit of an amused smile. He seems to make everyone some sort of uncomfortable now.
"Since we went to the Aiel Wastes." Rand settles in his chair, studying that cup of wine. "I heard the voice of another man, occasionally, that bemoaned his existence and ..." He rubs at his head with his stump. "I know what Ilyena Sunhair - Ilyena Therin Moerelle - looks like. I would recognize things, the uses of some ter'angreal. I mostly ignored him, because who would pay attention to a raving voice in their head?"
A half smile to Perrin. "Lews told me how to get out of the Shield that Eliada's Aes Sedai had held me under, at Dumai's Wells. And it worked, for all it was the advice of a madman." And he stilled some of the Aes Sedai Sheilding him.
"... I think I started actively talking to him around the time we met Taim. It is.. a little distracting, to hear someone screaming to kill the man before you, and so I told him to shut up. He did.. for a time. He began to seize saidin shortly after that. He knew these weaves - If you have seen Blossoms of Fire, Deathgates, Arrows of Fire, that was because he seized saidin from me, after cleansing saidin. The other Asha'man saw and replicated them. I talked him out of making a second Dragonmount there by intending to die at Tarmon Gai'don."
"I didn't know if it was the Taint, then, but now... Now it is because I am the Dragon Reborn. That is what I realized on Dragonmount. I have been rewoven, the onset of madness and his voice was because I began channeling as much as I had in roughly the same time. Yes, he died mad, but he lived for four hundred years - only a hundred of that was after Mierin - Lanfear - lead the group that created the Bore, under the Dark One's touch." He studies them both. Perhaps that really odd wisdom to his eyes makes sense now. "I am him, he has always been me, but still I am myself. It is the same thread, perhaps, as Semhirage had said, and something rare that will end up killing me, provided that Tarmon Gai'don doesn't." Should he study the floor? He basically just admitted to his two best friends that he was, in a way, as crazy as the world most probably thinks he is. "I know that another prophesy, one from a borderlander's Aes Sedai cousin, said that if I had not come to this conclusion, gained the memories of The Dragon, then they should have killed me there, for I would not have been the Dragon Reborn that the Light needed to win, and it would have been better that I did not make it to Tarmon Gai'don."
... He'll focus on what little is left of his wine for now.
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"Since we went to the Aiel Wastes." Rand settles in his chair, studying that cup of wine. "I heard the voice of another man, occasionally, that bemoaned his existence and ..." He rubs at his head with his stump. "I know what Ilyena Sunhair - Ilyena Therin Moerelle - looks like. I would recognize things, the uses of some ter'angreal. I mostly ignored him, because who would pay attention to a raving voice in their head?"
A half smile to Perrin. "Lews told me how to get out of the Shield that Eliada's Aes Sedai had held me under, at Dumai's Wells. And it worked, for all it was the advice of a madman." And he stilled some of the Aes Sedai Sheilding him.
"... I think I started actively talking to him around the time we met Taim. It is.. a little distracting, to hear someone screaming to kill the man before you, and so I told him to shut up. He did.. for a time. He began to seize saidin shortly after that. He knew these weaves - If you have seen Blossoms of Fire, Deathgates, Arrows of Fire, that was because he seized saidin from me, after cleansing saidin. The other Asha'man saw and replicated them. I talked him out of making a second Dragonmount there by intending to die at Tarmon Gai'don."
"I didn't know if it was the Taint, then, but now... Now it is because I am the Dragon Reborn. That is what I realized on Dragonmount. I have been rewoven, the onset of madness and his voice was because I began channeling as much as I had in roughly the same time. Yes, he died mad, but he lived for four hundred years - only a hundred of that was after Mierin - Lanfear - lead the group that created the Bore, under the Dark One's touch." He studies them both. Perhaps that really odd wisdom to his eyes makes sense now. "I am him, he has always been me, but still I am myself. It is the same thread, perhaps, as Semhirage had said, and something rare that will end up killing me, provided that Tarmon Gai'don doesn't." Should he study the floor? He basically just admitted to his two best friends that he was, in a way, as crazy as the world most probably thinks he is. "I know that another prophesy, one from a borderlander's Aes Sedai cousin, said that if I had not come to this conclusion, gained the memories of The Dragon, then they should have killed me there, for I would not have been the Dragon Reborn that the Light needed to win, and it would have been better that I did not make it to Tarmon Gai'don."
... He'll focus on what little is left of his wine for now.
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