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[mashiara]

Right. Meet Kharil-asuk, ( she gestures to the side, where... it's incredibly difficult to tell there is a massive, unreasonably large snake god in the dappled shadows of the foliage. ) who assures he'll donate his venom if any of our number confess to him the darkest crime you've performed. He promises no retribution, only a start to redemption.

Which does not include devouring. Regardless. Please help. I can walk away and leave my pendant with him, or I can stay. As Wisdom, I've heard the best and worst of people many times before.

( She waits, expectant. Any who does confess a crime, betrayal, or sin can (on player choice) feel more at peace with it or relieved, for up to 24 hours. What brief kindness! )

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[mashiara]

( Her snort, when she glances at the screen to see a portion of his... head? Seems to be. )

I refuse to believe that as warder to Moiraine you can find this surprising.

[thewarder]

[A grin curls at his lips before he answers.]

Are you suggesting that the two of you have something in common?

[mashiara]

( now that, through what clings of the particular fog and focus the concoction she's taken leaves her in for the moment, earns him a glaring, flat look. )

Don't we.

( Lan. Yet when it comes to choices and decisions based on how they behave: )

Not for much of what matters. Her ruthlessness is not mine.

( She too is ruthless, along different avenues. And she will never be the politician that Moiriane is, by her very nature, and that too is by Nynaeve's own nature. Mediator, yes. Spider holding all her strings? No. She's not one destined to be among the blues. )

[thewarder]

[So she is aware of it, he had figured she was but it was hard to be sure. There is something much like his Aes Sedai bond mate lurking inside Nynaeve. The fact that she's aware is just another reason they're all the more to remind him.]

Ah, but you are ruthless in your own way, are you not? I've seen how you talk to the others from your village.

[He's also seen how she can be soft with him.]

Or did you get more soft since you've traveled here, Wisdom?

[mashiara]

( Aware to a certain, particular extent; not acknowledging deeper awareness, but she doesn't need to look directly at it right now. Maybe later. Eventually.

The look she gives him and the flat eveness of her tone speaks enough. Still! )

Are your comparisons to stone, Lan, because I'm beginning to suspect they are. I take it you're joining the sensible ones not offering confessions to a massive, overgrown snake?

[thewarder]

[There's a reason he's drawn to her, even if it's hard to admit. What does it say about his relationship and feelings about his own Aes Sedai in this context. Yes, it's best he doesn't think of that at all.]

Do you think I am traveling with some dark secret that is even worth confessing? I'm but a simple, boring, Warder.

[It's not true at all, but easier to pretend then to have this exact discussion.]

Did you confess?

[mashiara]

( her snort of disbelief, that scoffing sound, pays heed to the sort of credence she gives his words. lies, yes. no doubt in her mind about that much. )

No. I will not.

( she has not. there will be nothing of herself further offered than what she's managed so far. )

But with what others have, there's more of this venom in... hand than I want anything to do with given this snake god doesn't go around biting people, and people drug themselves just to chase after its immense tail. The night's done. Or day. Whatever time it is!

[thewarder]

And will you return back safely then? With that venom?

[He's concerned about her dancing with such a snake god, even though he knows she is one of the strongest, most capable women he's ever met it's not something he's looking forward to.]

Or do you need help with something else?