h1 style="line-height: normal;"a name="_Toc171706281"/aspan lang="EN-GB"#*#29 SNIFF/span/h1
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"WoTtober 2023 #29 SNIFF/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"Perrin felt Faile tug at his coat sharply. "Stop it!" She was mad as ever. "Stop it right now."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""What?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"He saw the twitch in her arm. She was close to smacking him through the head, but kept calm in the end. Just like he tended to revert to being uncomfortable in official situations, she seemed to have it easier to contain her own emotion in such. She was a queen through and through and he couldn't be more proud. Right now, however, their little secret was already messing with her emotions./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"She pulled him again when they were approached by their hosts. Nynaeve just hugged him like he was still just a boy she would discipline in the Two Rivers. She followed Lan in a more formal welcome to Faile. Lan shook Perrin's hand and only then Perin saw another person following the two./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""Moraine?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"She looked somehow smaller than ever, lighter than he had seen her even after her 'resurrection'./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""It's good to see you again, Lord Aybara. she said, plastering a smile to her face. "You look well, both of you." She turned to Faile. "Your Highness," Moiraine said with a small curtsy./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"Faile nodded to her like to a member of nobility./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""I thought we could meet in the morning" Nynaeve said to Faile, looking with a wink at Perrin. "I have a dedicated room for visits like that and told them to prepare rooms for you nearby. Or I can come to your room. I will be quick. You probably know how easy delving is."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""I know." Faile was happy and he was even happier with how she felt. "My husband just panicked. And forgets we have trained yellow sisters in Saldea."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""They tend to work themselves up with the smallest of things, don't they."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"He zoned out when Nynaeve and Faile talked about men. His eyes were drawn to Moiraine standing close behind Lan like the... She looked exactly like the saldean Aes Sendai advisor that Cadsuane Sedai pushed on Faile while she was still a little overwhelmed during the coronation day. She caught his eye and he thought she would at least say something. Moiraine instead only lowered her eyes, then lifted them, scanning the room./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"Faile chose this moment to end the conversation. They were left alone again, at least for the moment, because the Amylin already spied them and would have moved if not for her conversation with some noble./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""Can I take you anywhere?" Faile tried to sound stern, but we heard her amusement. "You need to stop it or pretend better. Not everyone would appreciate you sniffing them so much." She shook her head and almost put a fist on her hips, but instead moved her hand to the cup Nynaeve sent over for her. "As long as we're together," she whispered to him, "tell me what had you so enthralled? You look like you've felt a ghost."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""I've felt something I've never sniffed before."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""And what could that be?" Faile was curious./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""Moiraine happy. Not satisfied, no proud. Sad, yes, but also really happy."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"And it was a really strange scent. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"WoTtober 2023 #29 SNIFF/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"Perrin felt Faile tug at his coat sharply. "Stop it!" She was mad as ever. "Stop it right now."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""What?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"He saw the twitch in her arm. She was close to smacking him through the head, but kept calm in the end. Just like he tended to revert to being uncomfortable in official situations, she seemed to have it easier to contain her own emotion in such. She was a queen through and through and he couldn't be more proud. Right now, however, their little secret was already messing with her emotions./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"She pulled him again when they were approached by their hosts. Nynaeve just hugged him like he was still just a boy she would discipline in the Two Rivers. She followed Lan in a more formal welcome to Faile. Lan shook Perrin's hand and only then Perin saw another person following the two./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""Moraine?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"She looked somehow smaller than ever, lighter than he had seen her even after her 'resurrection'./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""It's good to see you again, Lord Aybara. she said, plastering a smile to her face. "You look well, both of you." She turned to Faile. "Your Highness," Moiraine said with a small curtsy./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"Faile nodded to her like to a member of nobility./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""I thought we could meet in the morning" Nynaeve said to Faile, looking with a wink at Perrin. "I have a dedicated room for visits like that and told them to prepare rooms for you nearby. Or I can come to your room. I will be quick. You probably know how easy delving is."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""I know." Faile was happy and he was even happier with how she felt. "My husband just panicked. And forgets we have trained yellow sisters in Saldea."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""They tend to work themselves up with the smallest of things, don't they."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"He zoned out when Nynaeve and Faile talked about men. His eyes were drawn to Moiraine standing close behind Lan like the... She looked exactly like the saldean Aes Sendai advisor that Cadsuane Sedai pushed on Faile while she was still a little overwhelmed during the coronation day. She caught his eye and he thought she would at least say something. Moiraine instead only lowered her eyes, then lifted them, scanning the room./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"Faile chose this moment to end the conversation. They were left alone again, at least for the moment, because the Amylin already spied them and would have moved if not for her conversation with some noble./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""Can I take you anywhere?" Faile tried to sound stern, but we heard her amusement. "You need to stop it or pretend better. Not everyone would appreciate you sniffing them so much." She shook her head and almost put a fist on her hips, but instead moved her hand to the cup Nynaeve sent over for her. "As long as we're together," she whispered to him, "tell me what had you so enthralled? You look like you've felt a ghost."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""I've felt something I've never sniffed before."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""And what could that be?" Faile was curious./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB""Moiraine happy. Not satisfied, no proud. Sad, yes, but also really happy."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"span lang="EN-GB"And it was a really strange scent. /span/p