Disclaimer: I DO NOT own The Wheel of Time or any of the Characters. I wish i did! Then i'd be rich. *grumbles*

Todd muttered darkly under his breath. Something about "worthlesss teachers". The unseen presence watching him did not care. Soon, it would be free. All that this foolish human had to do was find...ahh...that's it.....

Todd grimaced. "Damned worthless teachers. Why must I be tormented so?! Ahh, well, fuck them. They've never taught me anything..." Todd hated teachers. It was irrational, and he knew it, but he didn't care. If it weren't for teachers, he wouldn't have skipped school, wouldn't be walking here... His dark thoughts vanished as he caught sight something out of the corner of his eye;something half covered by moss. He walked over to the strange object and tore off the moss covering it. It looked like what used to be a stone pillar, with odd symbols engraved all over it. one of them-an upside-down five-pointed star inside a circle-caught his eye. He traced the star with his finger, wondering what it could be...

The Keeper jerked awake, nearly falling of his chair. He looked around at the surrounding whiteness, and sighed. It was so BORING in here! Then he remembered what had jerked him awake...SHIT! Someone on the the world called "Earth" had discoverd the Portal Stone that would lead directly to the Bore(A/N, for those of you who don't remember, or haven't read the books, The Bore is the passage to the Dark One's prison)! "Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck!!" The Keeper swore,"This is TOO much excitement for my taste...". Whether or not he wanted to, he had a job to do. Who knows, he thought, unsheathing his arm blades with a grin, This might even be fun...

As Todd traced the odd symbol, he sensed something, something in his own head! It beckoned to him. Todd was never one for holding back, so he reached out for it.... Saidin struck him like a freight train. Todd struggled, and finally forced the torrent of power down. All his senses were heightened to the extreme, he could feel every slight breeze, hear every sound...it was wonderful. As he looked down at the strange symbol, it pulled at the power in his command. He directed a small stream of the...whatever-it-was, into the symbol, and he was suddenly in, well, nothing. All he could see was white, and he was floating in midair. Face-down, he thought, but he couldn't really be sure. Suddenly, he saw a speck of black in the distance. He thought it might be land, or something, so he moved towards it. Or, he tried to move towards it, flapping his arms and legs about madly, but all that did was make him look like an idiot. It wasn't really necessary, either, because the speck appeared to move towards him. As it drew closer, he started to rethink moving towards it, even though he didn't really have a choice. He sensed, something about it, he couldn't really tell... Suddenly, the speck grew into a large black ball. Being this close, Todd knew what he had sensed, and the blood drained from his face. That...that, THING emanated an overpowering sense of evil. Todd nearly wet himself, he was so scared. He flailed, trying to get away, but it was useless. The thing sucked him in, and all he felt was blinding, mind-numbing pain....

As the Keeper walked through his nifty little domain-thing, a blinding pain in the back of his head forced him to his knees. "Gaah!!", he howled, " That CANNOT be a good sign..."

Todd awoke in a clearing in what looked like some woods. Sunlight filtered through the trees, falling directly on him. He got up and brushed himself off, chuckling softly. "It's like a bad fantasy movie..." He heard a twig snap, and spun towards the sound. There was a boy standing there, with his head down. He couldn't be more than 14...The boy grinned, and looked up. Todd recoiled in fear and disgust. His face was normal, but his eyes! The pupils were red, and the irises were black. That wasn't even the oddest part! Where his whites should be, was red. No, blue. No, yellow..."What the..." Todd peered closer. His eyes were changing! The boy grinned at him. " Hello, Todd", he said, grinning wider. "Who are y-", Todd began, but was cut off by a twig snapping behind him. Todd spun again, and found himself face-to-face with a nondescript man in dressed all in grey...

The gholam grinned. This was the child from "Earth" the Great Lord had sent him to find. The gholam grinned wider. Even better, the little one could channel. But who was his companion? The Great Lord never mentioned anyone else... The gholam's eyes drifted to the boy's face, and as he saw his eyes, all thought fled, replaced by one burning emotion.....Terror.

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