<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>Bondmate:</strong>Kalain Baneron<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/>In the back of her mind she felt him. Through their bond she could reach back and feel the annoyance that filled him at being trapped in a crowd (always a dangerous proposition when one looked for assassins in every face) simply because his Aes Sedai wanted to enjoy a faire. Today was one of the few days she wasn't trying to block that awareness. Often she threw up mental shields because he carried<em>so much</em>anger and, despite appearances, she carried a deep enough well of her own rage that to feel his to often was to risk falling into an emotional trap neither of them was prepared to deal with.<br/><br/>Today was different though, today she was allowing herself to be happy and carefree as she hadn't been since she was little more than an Accepted on her very first free day. Today she wasn't allowing her anger or her grief (even nearly a year later she still grieved the loss of her dearest friend) to take over her existence and so, today, feeling him in the back of her mind, a constant (annoying but well known by now) presence was actually comforting and amusing. His very presence, ever watchful and prepared, allowed her to be even more carefree than she'd planned when she left the Tower.<br/><br/>The feel of his battle roughened hand in hers put a smile on her lips and while her own were far smoother, she hadn't seen the years of battle he had, they weren't entirely smooth. Small callouses of her own lined her palms and you could almost trace the way she gripped her daggers in practice from that line of slightly roughened skin.<br/><br/>And then she felt it. Through the Bond she felt not just his sudden, physical stillness, but his emotion stillness as well and it gave her s surge of fierce pride to realize that what the Saladean Ladies had taught her, on a whim, worked so much better than even they had claimed it would! A single step from a dance that one from his homeland would recognize and she could feel the scandal and shock that ran through him! Granted she really wouldn't have done more than a single step, maybe two, of that particular dance, she had simply wanted to surprise him, he was always so gruff and jaded and acted as if nothing she did was a surprise, just an annoyance.<br/><br/>Apparently she'd done well in surprising him.<br/><br/>Looking up to meet his eyes as he stepped in, his hand warm on her hip through the thin silk of her gown, she flashed him an impish grin and it was her turn to raise a single eyes brow, almost as if she could read the impulses travelling through his mind!<br/><br/>His words only made her laugh as she moved through a series of intricate steps, amazed at how well he actually kept up! Onlookers probably wouldn't notice anything but being his partner she could feel minuscule hesitations here and there and she was well aware that she was the one leading him through this dance. Still he followed exceptionally well and she couldn't resist complimenting him, "You dance very well, especially when you don't know the dance."<br/><br/>She was tempted to ask if Elaine had taught him but pushed the question away for another day. No need to spoil the mood with hard subjects.<br/><br/>"As for other partners keeping up...this my Warder, is a dance floor, if one partner falls away, there is always another to take their place until one with the will and stamina to keep up comes along," she laughed and gave a small shrug as her eyes moved around the floor as if already seeking who her next dance partner would be. In the back of her mind she had to admit to, to herself anyway, that she was goading him, but it seemed she didn't want to resist the challenge he represented today.