Wheel of Time Ficlet: Patience

[kat_lair]

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Title: Patience
Author:kat_lair 
Fandom: Wheel of Time (books/tv-show)
Characters: Bair, Egwene al'Vere
Tags: Ficlet, Character Study, Prompt Fill
Rating: G
Word count: 191

Summary: People will die for her as readily as they'll die for water.

Author notes: For goodbyebird's prompt of 'Bair & Egwene, patience' in in the 3.04 Episodic Prompt Meme over at tar_valon. The prompt grabbed me by the throat in the middle of 18h travel during an airport layover.

Patience on AO3

She ripples like water, the air around her wavering, currents of her One Power shifting in and out of the Dream like the barrier isn't even there. Because for Egwene, it isn't. Bair watches her watching everyone, and never seeing the waves that carry her along, the way they push her high, pull her deep, twist around her, murky green, off-white like old bones, blue like Bair imagines an ocean to be, unbearably beautiful, unfathomably dangerous.

Egwene ripples like water, and Bair sees people will die for her as readily as they'll die for water, for a chance of a mouthful, a droplet on their upturned faces, their swollen tongues, bestowed like an unthinking mercy. If they are lucky, if the Wise Ones have the patience to let Egwene find her own stream and only direct when necessary, she may even realise it before too many lay their lives on the banks of her power. She may become a bridge as well as a raging river.

Without one, you can drown in a Dream and never wake up. Bair knows. She's seen it happen.

She fears she will see it again.

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Comments

[moth2fic]

Lovely! I've started watching the new season. C has abandoned it. He says it has too much gratuitous violence for his taste but I suspect he just finds it hard to follow and I must admit, unless you've read the books, it must be difficult. The producers do seem to assume some familiarity with various aspects of the characters and plot.

[kat_lair]

Thank you! Hmmm... The opening of the season was certainly violent but there hasn't been too much of it since. I mean... there will be some big battles coming up. What I guess marks this is that it's violence by and between women, which we don't see as much.

I've really enjoyed all the attention to detail show, the costuming department especially deserves all the awards.

[moth2fic]

The costumes are stunning. Someone has incredible imagination and skill!