<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e8/GreenAjah.jpg)</div><strong>Character name:</strong><strong>Moira Niall</strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=234819.msg11564337#msg11564337)<br/><strong>Position:</strong>Sister, Green Ajah<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Kalain Baneron<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Saven 5th | 990NE | Evening<br/><strong>Place:</strong>Faire around Tar Valon<br/><strong>Warning:</strong><br/><hr/><br/>A small, impish, smile curved Moira's lips as she tucked a tendril of dark hair behind one ear. The past year had been a long one. The best friend she'd ever had had died and when she had she'd passed her Warder's Bond to Moira leaving the Green Sister not only to grieve the loss of her friend but to also tend to the needs of a Warder caught under the impulse to suicide and join the first Sister he'd been Bonded to in death. Moira had wondered, more than once, if Kal hadn't had to bring Elaine's body back to them if he wouldn't have actually done it. Instead the time it took for him to bring that body back had let their new Bond settle and tighten so that, while he might not suicide, he had been a perpetual pain in her backside! Whenever her concentration slipped she could feel his grief along with her own and she knew there had been moments when her outbursts had been frightening to some.<br/><br/>But time had begun to work it's magic. The Wheel didn't stop turning simply because she wore white ribbons in her dark hair or tied to her gowns. The world continued even though one of the brightest lights she'd ever known had been extinguished and one day she found a smile, an honest, joyful, smile curving her lips as she practiced her Weaves and another she felt a sense of exhilaration out on the practicing sands when she disarmed a Gaidin until gradually her days were more filled with contentment than sadness and joy came easier once more.<br/><br/>She even learned to deal with the Warder Elaine had saddled her with. When she'd promised her friend she would take his Bond if something happened to her, she'd thought it was a light promise. She hadn't actually expected anything to happen to Elaine and she certainly hadn't expected to be saddled with a surly Warder who seemed to feel the need to be a constant irritation to her. At first they'd avoided each other entirely, their mutual grief nearly overwhelming and their shared rage at their loss making them lash out violently at each other. Gradually she'd allowed herself to be in the same place he was when that place was the practice sands, even going so far as to pit herself against him from time to time and learning that if she didn't keep him back by tapping the Source and using a Weave to hold him off, she would end up on her ass in the sand. She was good, he was simply better if she let him get in close.<br/><br/>And of course there was the latest development. Just thinking about it made her fingers rise to touch the healing mark at the back of her neck. It was almost entirely gone and with her hair loose and flowing around her neck and shoulders no one would know it was there but her. Still just knowing it was there put a slight blush on her cheeks. She still wasn't entirely certain what she thought of their occasional dalliances. Part of her felt guilty, as if she'd poached him from Elaine, part of her simply enjoyed the game flowing between them, and part of her (as always) wanted to smack him.<br/><br/>Tonight she was putting all of that aside! Tonight was the first faire since her life had changed so radically and she was determined to enjoy it. She had no idea if her shadow would appear and join her or not. She hadn't invited him to, but she'd told him she was going, though she hadn't mentioned on which day, or at what time. He liked to grouse and play games, well tonight he could play<em>her</em>game. Tonight she planned to laugh and play games, to stop at stalls, and to dance if someone set up a dancing square. Tonight she would be the epitome of a brash, flirtatious, outgoing Green Sister and if he didn't like he he could stay in the Tower and grump on his own!<br/><br/>Pushing her thoughts away she suddenly let a bright laugh part her lips, drawing smiles from those around her as she swept into the city wearing a gown of shimmering green silk. It was a simple cut, the bodice and sleeves fitting tightly against her skin while the skirt swirled around her legs and promised to flare and twist around her if let herself be drawn into one of the more energetic of dances tonight! Around her waist a belt of soft doeskin carried sheathes that held the twin daggers she never left the Tower without and her coin purse and on her right index finger sat the Great Serpent ring that marked her clearly as Aes Sedai. Here in their own city she felt none of the trepidations about wearing her ring that she might have felt in another city. Here she could openly be what she was an, in fact, revel in it.<br/><br/>Plunging into the heart of the faire she laughed and chatted as she paused to look at the goods for sale and watch, with a warm grin on her lips, as children ran and yelled, screaming in delight, and played the games you only saw at such events. If Kal chose to join her, he was going to have to find her himself because she was caught up in the goings on around her and not allowing any of her everyday worries to bother her in the least.