righthandedragon: (Ta'Veren)
righthandedragon ([personal profile] righthandedragon) wrote in [community profile] vatheon2012-05-24 03:42 pm

And the last of the Ta'veren arrives;

Who: The Two Rivers boys - Rand, Mat, Perrin
Where: At the Coral
When: Noonish.
Style: Prose works o/
Status: CLOSED

Rand is very certain that he hadn't traveled. Or fallen asleep. This wasn't the Tel'aran'rhiod, because his brown cloak - coat might actually be far more accurate - didn't change when he tried. And he still had the Dragon Sword, Callandor, and still sensed the Source, so....

"It can't be His doing, the time for tricks is over..." Even if Moridin had claimed that he didn't pull him that time, this... this was a new place. Licking his lips once, he placed saltwater. Could explain the watery look to the sky, but...

Rand shifts, deciding to allow his need for answers pull anyone close.

[personal profile] ex_wolfbrother668 2012-06-02 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
"The Black Tower?" Perrin frowns. Grady had asked him about going, but there hadn't been time yet to let him. Maybe it wouldn't have worked anyway. Perrin hadn't seen another of those domes in the wolf dream, but he hadn't been looking for one at the Black Tower. "There must be a second one, Rand."

Mat says 'Dragons' so casually that Perrin almost misses it. He, too, glances at Rand's arm, before looking to Mat for the explanation. Probably it's just a name for something else, a group maybe, but he is curious. And that gholam... even if it does make Mat uncomfortable, it might be a danger they need to know about.

[personal profile] princeoftheravens 2012-06-02 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
"What are they planning making it so people can't Travel in and out of the Black Tower?" Mat frowns as well. It'd be bad news if that barrier held Asha'men back from fighting at the Last Battle. They'd have to run or ride out of the barrier before being able to Travel...

"Well, we didn't find dragons, not like your arms. Aludra made them. They launch huge lumps of metal about a mile, and Elayne had made the prototypes by the time I left for the Tower of Ghenjei. I saw them tested, and they work like we planned." He nods.

And...he looks away again and takes a larger gulp of his wine. "The gholam is an assassin who can fit through a hole not much bigger than my palm, if not smaller. They feed on human blood, and the Power doesn't touch them. My medallion is the only thing that I know of that can hurt them. I tossed the one that killed Tylin and Lopin off a Skimming platform." He's pretty sure that would answer Rand's question. They aren't exactly the same. Light, he wishes he had been able to do that sooner. Maybe then Lopin and Tylin wouldn't have died.

[personal profile] ex_wolfbrother668 2012-06-03 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
He can't do anything here, but when they return home and he has access to the wolf dream again, Perrin will have to look for that ter'angreal. He's certain someone is setting another trap, be it Slayer or another of the Shadow.

Perrin is quiet at Mat's description, sipping his wine. They're all facing such dangers back home... This place has been so peaceful in comparison. He's been told time doesn't pass back home, and Mat's account of their meeting seems to prove it. Still, he feels like he's been pulled out of a battle, left people behind.

"Rand..." He glancess at Mat before continuing bluntly, "It's already uncomfortable." Lews Therin? And the other things he's only half-mentioned--Perrin isn't sure if having them out in the open would make him any more comfortable, but some of them might be good to know.

[personal profile] princeoftheravens 2012-06-05 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
....Rand was calm about hearing from Lews. The only Lews Mat could remember hearing about was Lews Therin Telamon, the Dragon, the Kinslayer.

Rand, that in itself makes Mat more uncomfortable. Mat nods. "It's flaming uncomfortable already." His curiosity makes him want to know though... "You heard Lews Therin?" He's going to take another drink of that wine now.

And who made the gholam?

[personal profile] ex_wolfbrother668 2012-06-06 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Perrin wordlessly nudges the bottle of wine over to Mat as Rand starts speaking. Mat seems to be going through his cup faster than Perrin and at this rate he'll probably need the refill.

Meanwhile he regards Rand with a thoughtful frown. It's true, most of what he's describing sounds like madness; hearing the voice of a dead man in your head, what else could that be? But the way in which Rand is talking about it... seems remarkably calm and collected. Sane, even.

Rand is the Dragon Reborn, the reincarnation of Lews Therin Telamon. Is it so far-fetched to consider that some part of that long-dead man survives now, in Rand? He can't believe, really, that the man was actually carrying on conversations with Rand--that is certainly madness. But Rand seems to know things that no living man ought to, so there must be more to it than madness. And certainly something did happen to him there on Dragonmount.

It's something Perrin is going to need some time to think over. For now, he shakes his head. "It does sound crazy. But, maybe not as much as I'd thought."

He looks down at his own cup, also nearing empty. Something else Rand said was more concerning. "What do you mean that it could kill you?"

[personal profile] princeoftheravens 2012-06-06 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Mat likes his wine, and he'll be refilling his cup now. He knows his limit, but this doesn't taste exactly like the wine back in the Westlands. He'll slow down anyway.

You know, he thought Rand was crazy before. But he didn't think he was hearing a voice. Then again, if voices mean you're crazy, what do dice mean? Mat's sure he isn't insane, so maybe Rand isn't either. It certainly is starting to seem like he is sane now. Maybe not that he's completely sane, but at least not insane.

"Blood and ashes." Mat moves the wine closer to Perrin. He has more wine, and he has a feeling Perrin'll need more too. Giving Rand more doesn't exactly sound like a good idea. "You don't sound as crazy as I thought you were either, Rand."

He watches Rand with his eye, waiting for the answer to Perrin's question.

[personal profile] ex_wolfbrother668 2012-06-07 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Perrin takes the wine back from Mat to refill his own cup. He would offer it to Rand, but he doesn't seem interested. Perrin's eyes rest on that stump a moment as he sets the bottle back down.

"There's no reason for one of the Forsaken to tell you the truth about it anyway," he says. Even if she were telling him what she thought of as truth, he agreed with Rand; it didn't make her right.

[personal profile] princeoftheravens 2012-06-07 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Semirhage is also the one who destroyed Rand's hand...Did she always do things like that? Mat nods. "She could just have been lying to you anyway." And yeah, even if she told him what she thought was the truth, it might not have been true.

"So you're not insane anymore, Moiraine's back, and Perrin's gotten rid of a ter'angreal that prevents Gateways." That's all the really important things, right? That and the deaths of more Forsaken. 'Deaths' isn't the best way to say that though.

[personal profile] ex_wolfbrother668 2012-06-10 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That was a neat way of summing up what had likely been ordeals for all of them. Perrin can't help a small smile at that before letting out a breath.

"And now we're here."

[personal profile] princeoftheravens 2012-06-13 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Now we're here." Mat nods. He gets up to make tea, feeling like he was close to his self-enforced limit of wine.

A pause before he mutters under his breath, his back still facing away from them, "Light, I miss Tuon."

[personal profile] ex_wolfbrother668 2012-06-14 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Perrin doesn't recognize the name, but Rand clarifies it well enough. Mat, missing what sounds like a Seanchan noblewoman?

"I wouldn't have thought you'd get on well with the Seanchan, Mat."

[personal profile] princeoftheravens 2012-06-15 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Right. He hadn't told either of them about her yet. And he'd been planning not to. Blood and bloody ashes. "She's Empress now, Rand. And I don't. Tuon's special."

...They won't figure out he's married to her from that, will they? Light, he hopes not. They'd just tease him, and Perrin's already done that, even though he isn't from that far yet.

[personal profile] ex_wolfbrother668 2012-06-15 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Light, Mat, you're not pursuing the Seanchan Empress, are you?"

No, Perrin probably won't be able to guess Mat is married to the woman, but him calling her 'special' coupled with that 'scoundrel' remark is enough for him to suspect romantic interest on Mat's part. He might just be foolhardy enough for it.

[personal profile] princeoftheravens 2012-06-15 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
ALjfdlfjl;asdfjjf Bloody ashes! He's definitely not going to look at them now. "I'm not." Considering they were already married, he's really not. Even though he was the one who said his half of the vows first. He didn't know what they were at the time.

He sounds a bit wistful. "She mentioned me?" -wait. Waaait. He turns to stare at Rand. "You talked to her? You didn't-- Indolent scoundrel? She's the one who-- Why were you even talking about me? When did you talk to her?"

[personal profile] ex_wolfbrother668 2012-06-15 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That may not technically be a lie, Mat, but you sound, smell, and act like you're trying to hide something. It's an incredible and improbable thing, but those sorts of things tend to be less so around the three of them. Perrin watches Mat with amusement replacing some of the incredulity in his yellow eyes. Some of the things Rand just mentioned can wait.

"You didn't mention kidnapping an empress in your recent accomplishments, Mat. It sounds like an interesting story."

[personal profile] princeoftheravens 2012-06-15 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Light! She wanted to know if I knew you. Don't think she wanted to treat with you though."

Mat blinks. "Nynaeve threatened her because she thought she might have hurt me?" That...is a bit surprising. Especially since as Tuon apparently said, Mat had kidnapped Tuon. Not that he'd hurt her. Blood and ashes, he did whatever he could to help her when there was a battle. And she'd probably be dead if he hadn't kidnapped her. Before hearing who she was, he'd been planning on tying her up and leaving her there, like he'd left Tylin. And the gholam had gotten Tylin.

He turns away again. "She wasn't Empress when she was traveling with the Band and me."

[personal profile] ex_wolfbrother668 2012-06-17 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Never mind about her title." Does it really matter when exactly it was that she stopped being this 'Daughter of the Nine Moons' and started being the Empress?

"I'm more curious about why you miss her."

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