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[shelley_winters]

Shelley is sitting outside. Why not? It's a nice day, for Spring, and she has a cup of tea and a book.

It's nice and peaceful.

You'll ignore the way she looks up suspiciously every time someone passes.

Or maybe you won't.

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[blue_ajah]

Six months?

"What is it that you were not prepared for, Shelley?"

Moiraine deliberates with herself for a moment, then gracefully takes a seat on a nearby rock.

[shelley_winters]

"Any of it. I'd- been getting used to the idea that he was gone, and it had been longer for me because I'd been going home, and then he was just there and I panicked. I didn't know what he wanted."

She looks up, squinting at the bright sky.

"I thought he was just going to kill me. I mean, maybe he was and got distracted, who can tell?"

[blue_ajah]

"Were it only a simple death that he had wished to visit upon you, it might have easily been accomplished without taking you elsewhere," the Aes Sedai points out.

"Do you have a better understanding of matters -- and his interests -- now?"

[shelley_winters]

"Maybe," the girl murmurs.

"He seemed... happy to be getting me back, which was odd. I think maybe he hated the idea that I'd escaped because- well, I wasn't controlled by him any more. He liked control. Likes. As soon as he knew I'd got away..."

She tails off.

[blue_ajah]

As Shelley goes quiet, Moiraine tilts her head, and waits silently for the girl to continue.

[shelley_winters]

Shelley screws up her eyes slightly as she stares forwards, trying to think.

"He couldn't just grab me and go. He didn't let me see him until I was inside, and welded the door shut behind me. Everything he said, it was- it was all to make me feel helpless. Like he'd won a game and he wanted me to realise. I suppose it worked, now I think about it."