Title: When
Darkness Falls
Author:
Paradine Tigress
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Rating: G
For right now it will change later on but I will post when it does so No Worries!
Category:
Books, Wheel of Time, Fantasy
Warnings:
None…yet may never be.
Spoilers:
What would be fun about Jordan if there were not any spoilers? The time
line is easy to figure out you should be able to get it. If not mail me and ask me to put it in.
Summary: All
I have to say is…Please Review! I
would like to add the next part but I would really like to know how many of you
are interested in more. Thank you!
Disclaimer:
I do not own any of Jordan's lingo or characters that may turn up. The rest of the story is strictly fantasy
and would probably never happen in Jordan's world. (Although it would be nice if it did this is an interesting
topic) I do not have the rights to
anything in his books including characters, names etc. I am a poor author and do this strictly for
fun so Please Don't Sue Me!
I hope you enjoy!
"Adena?"
"Adena!" The voice whispered harshly.
She forced her eyes open and saw the
silhouette of a woman standing over her in the moonlight. "What is it
Laraine?" She asked with a slight bit of irritation.
"There is a man in the courtyard.
He is injured."
"And what does this have to do
with me Laraine?"
"He needs your help." She
told her patiently. Patience or no it still sounded as if she was explaining
the obvious to a two-year-old.
"My help?" She sighed as she
threw the covers back, away from her. "Why not a yellow? I am a Green and
supposed to leave very soon. Why me?" She stood in the darkness in nothing
but her shift and channeled the candle next to the bed to life.
Laraine smiled to herself. She had
known Adena would help. The poor man needed a Yellow sister, but she knew Adena
would be just as well. She pulled a dark green riding dress from the wardrobe
and began helping her into it. "There are not any Yellows close enough.
Besides I knew you would not let him die. You are the only sister I know with
the knowledge of all the Ajahs. What
was it ten years?" She asked.
"He's that bad huh?" Laraine
nodded and began fastening the back of her dress.
Most Aes Sedai knew their Ajah before
being raised. She on the other hand spent ten years "deciding" which
Ajah to choose. Of course everyone had eventually caught on, but not before she
was raised to the Green Ajah, but there was nothing they could do about it.
Domani were known for the cleverness. There was nothing saying that she could
not experiment and see which Ajah she liked most. How that did cause a ruckus!
Good chance the Ajahs wouldn't let that happen again. There was something more
though...
Since she was a novice she had known
something would happen to her. Something unexplained...Why was that tugging her
memory now? She had thought she figured it out already. Every time she had
walked the arches it had been the same in at least one part.
"The third time," Sheriam intoned,
"is for what will be. Remember these are only possible futures none real.
The way will come but once. Be steadfast." She stepped through. Blinding
white light hit her and she found herself in the Amyrlin's chambers, the seven
striped stole lying across her desk. This can't be right. I
have no wish to become Amyrlin. The
light changed again and she was in a room with a bunch of Aes Sedai, one from
each Ajah. She was hardly in the room long enough to puzzle anything out about
that before the light changed again and she was somewhere else. This time she
was in the middle of a field. Do not show fear. This is not real. The field suddenly caught fire engulfing
her in flames. She closed her eyes tightly wishing fervently for it to be over
with. This is NOT real! She could
feel the heat of the fire around her but when she opened her eyes the fire did
not touch her. Instead there was a circle of air between her and the fire
keeping it at bay. So the same happened three more times the others being with
water, earth, and air. Light let this be the extent of it! As if she had been heard, by this dream, by
whatever you wanted to call it the light came again and the scene changed.
She was back at the tower in the
courtyard near where the warders practice grounds were. The night shrouded
everything in blackness, but there was still enough light to see by the full
moon. A man suddenly appeared from within the depths of the shadows, with the
shadow of a Heron following him. For some reason the man frightened her. His face
was contorted in pain, adding all that much more to the frightening gaze he
bestowed upon her. The man moved closer to her and she backed away. She saw the
arch appear behind him and once again heard Sheriam's voice in her head. The
way will come but once. Be Steadfast. Relief
flooded her at seeing the silver arch and she darted toward it running faster
than she never had before. She stumbled through the Ter'angreal and fell to her
knees weeping. "I will not let him hurt me!"
"He
will not hurt you child it was not real." Sheriam told her as she took her
by the arm. She felt as if she had been shaken to her very core and nothing was
going to change her mind about it. Sheriam helped her to her feet shakily,
pushing her forward. The Amyrlin had the last chalice. She let the cold water
pass over her body for the final time and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Adena Sedai?" Loraine asked, bringing her back
from her reverie.
"Yes. You were saying?" She
took her black riding cloak from the other woman's hands and fastened it
lifting her dark brown ringlets from underneath the cloak.
"The young man is this
way."
