The world shivers around them with the force of the strike and the furious wild rage of the unconstrained Dark -- shivers and flickers and bleeds unreal colors that are all lost in the golden fire as the Aes Sedai pours more and more power into the shield that she holds.
(Whatever the Dark One wishes I oppose)
She is near the edge now, at the limit of her strength -- her own strength now, hers alone, with no Warder nor sisters to aid, and all the world will be lost if she fails--
(duty heavier than a mountain)
--yet she does not break beneath the terrible onslaught; she dare not. She must not.
She will not.
And so she holds, for a few moments more, each one graven in light before her-- for just long enough.
The fury of this first strike spent, the Dark swirls up, away and back toward the others, recoiling and regrouping itself.
In the sudden ringing silence left behind, Moiraine staggers. The light around her flickers, and then vanishes as she falls to the ground and knows no more.
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(Whatever the Dark One wishes I oppose)
She is near the edge now, at the limit of her strength -- her own strength now, hers alone, with no Warder nor sisters to aid, and all the world will be lost if she fails--
(duty heavier than a mountain)
--yet she does not break beneath the terrible onslaught; she dare not. She must not.
She will not.
And so she holds, for a few moments more, each one graven in light before her-- for just long enough.
The fury of this first strike spent, the Dark swirls up, away and back toward the others, recoiling and regrouping itself.
In the sudden ringing silence left behind, Moiraine staggers. The light around her flickers, and then vanishes as she falls to the ground and knows no more.