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2023-02-09
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One Last Step

Summary:

If someone asked, she could have said that her life flashed before her eyes.
It did, but it was not the past.

Notes:

Thank you to my wonderful beta, poohsticksbridge

Major spoilers for that scene in Fires of Heaven.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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If someone asked, she could have said that her life flashed before her eyes.

It did, but it was not the past.

The Wheel wove. Possibilities sheared with cruel precision.

A candle on the windowsill, a roaring hearth. Waiting. For her.

One step.

Just one more.

Moiraine forced herself up to her knees, wiping blood from her lip. Above, the Daughter of the Night blazed with saidar.

A life. A love of her own.

A future.

She filled her lungs with salty air and pulled on saidar.

Twenty years of failure, and it came down to this.

One last step.

Notes:

Hello friends.

I'm coming back to add the postscript because this story only has 100 words to work with, and it makes it difficult to convey the emphasis.

It is not about the mission to find or guide the Dragon Reborn. This story is about Moiraine herself. What she wanted and needed for herself, and what she had spent 20 years (and more) denying. Because in the secret places of her heart, she does want. She wants to love and be loved. To have a home. To be accepted and to feel herself acceptable.

I hope this helps. It is a hard-hitting story. It is meant to be. I am more than open to talk about it in the comments.