Drabbles of life after

by Ludwisia

After the Last Battle has been fought and won, all have to adjust and find their new place. How do Moiraine and Thom do this when there is no obvious role for them? A series of drabbles written for WoTTober2024 to explore some ideas for a bigger fic.

26. Chapter 26

h1 style="line-height: normal;"a name="_Toc171706275"/aspan lang="EN-GB"#*#25 BOW/span/h1
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"WoTtober 2023 #25 Bow/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""No," she said again, now really tired of the lesson. Even dancing was better than that. And here she was, several days later, seriously rethinking her earlier preconceptions."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""If you've had enough..." Nynaeve scoffed in her own frustration./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""No, we need to do this today. You wanted my help, I promised to help."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""Burn that burning oaths."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"Moraine let the words pass her by like it was nothing. In truth it was. It was just Nynaeve being her old self. This would, of course, have to go eventually, but Moraine had no strength left to work on it as well. Keep to the important part, she reminded herself./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""Again, pretend I am Cadsuane and remember, it has to be more than a nod, but no more than just a slow dip."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"She moved back and walked those several steps towards Nynaeve. A moment later she was sure Thom would be bursting through the door even with her bond masked. "Again," she moved. "Let's practice the bow again."/span/p