01-06-2023, 01:15 AM
She watched him closely. Of all the Asha’man that Lythia knew over the years - and she knew many - there were only a handful whose volatile minds kept her on edge enough to really pay attention. She knew what battle and trauma did to men and women, so most mannerisms she could recognize. Once in a while there were men who were either unhinged to start with, that when adding in access to the One Power only made them volcanic, and then there were the few remaining channelers who were around since the days prior the cleansing. She had to suspect Jai to be one such channeler, although it would take a trek through Black Tower records to confirm the year of his initiation. Still, it didn’t take much digging to find out about his family’s house in Tar Valon. He wasn’t set up for success from the beginning.
Add in basically every story since then, plus the description from Ellomai about what happened in Tar Valon, the scene in Black Tower with the M’Hael and Lennox, and of course how Nythadri was entangled in all of it pulling her heart strings. Lythia remembered being as enamored with another rogue Asha’man, although that relationship didn’t work out between them. Added together, she knew Jai was one step from falling off a cliff of sanity. It was why he was so easy to manipulate.
So really, his gifts were just Lythia’s advantage.
She nodded once he put the pieces together.
“We can, I think, but we need some Sisters to understand Daryen’s perspective. You know he will never speak for himself in that regard. You know he can’t.”
She stood then, embracing Saidar and a gateway formed a few moments afterward. The opposite side was clearly that of the White Tower. No other place on the planet was made of such recognizable.
“You’ll need to answer a few questions from the Hall. Right now though, before they can hear another story that biases them against Daryen,” she urged him. "I'll stay with you as long as I can."
Add in basically every story since then, plus the description from Ellomai about what happened in Tar Valon, the scene in Black Tower with the M’Hael and Lennox, and of course how Nythadri was entangled in all of it pulling her heart strings. Lythia remembered being as enamored with another rogue Asha’man, although that relationship didn’t work out between them. Added together, she knew Jai was one step from falling off a cliff of sanity. It was why he was so easy to manipulate.
So really, his gifts were just Lythia’s advantage.
She nodded once he put the pieces together.
“We can, I think, but we need some Sisters to understand Daryen’s perspective. You know he will never speak for himself in that regard. You know he can’t.”
She stood then, embracing Saidar and a gateway formed a few moments afterward. The opposite side was clearly that of the White Tower. No other place on the planet was made of such recognizable.
“You’ll need to answer a few questions from the Hall. Right now though, before they can hear another story that biases them against Daryen,” she urged him. "I'll stay with you as long as I can."