Makes sense, wouldn't it? If the world...breaks and heals to break again, the poison can't stay in the land. I think it's a poison, anyhow. Don't know what else could make everything living rot by touching it. Oh, fuck if I know, I am not that learned a man.
[Not in those matters, at least. He knows the woods, he knows how to pick a pocket, he knows odds. He doesn't know much of what's typically handled by Aes Sedai and the kings and queens of the world.
And currently, at least, it very much isn't his problem. It's in the hands of the Aes Sedai. And Rand, he supposes, but he can't imagine even Moiraine throwing Rand into the thick of all of that.
Right now he's at a festival talking to a very pleasant woman, that's what he'd rather think about.]
...How? Is it some manner of channeling? Ah, pardon, magic I mean? We call it channeling where I come from.
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[Mat seems a bit heartened by that.]
Makes sense, wouldn't it? If the world...breaks and heals to break again, the poison can't stay in the land. I think it's a poison, anyhow. Don't know what else could make everything living rot by touching it. Oh, fuck if I know, I am not that learned a man.
[Not in those matters, at least. He knows the woods, he knows how to pick a pocket, he knows odds. He doesn't know much of what's typically handled by Aes Sedai and the kings and queens of the world.
And currently, at least, it very much isn't his problem. It's in the hands of the Aes Sedai. And Rand, he supposes, but he can't imagine even Moiraine throwing Rand into the thick of all of that.
Right now he's at a festival talking to a very pleasant woman, that's what he'd rather think about.]
...How? Is it some manner of channeling? Ah, pardon, magic I mean? We call it channeling where I come from.