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lan wangji
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What oaths bind you?

[cairhien]

To speak no worth that is not true, to make no weapon with which one person may kill another an never to use the one power as a weapon except against Darkspawn or Shadowspawn, or in the last extreme defense of my life, that of my Warder or another Aes Sedai.

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Whom do you serve?

[cairhien]

We don't. Aes Sedai are bound by no King nor Queen.

( they served their amyrlin seat, though it was less service and more following her instruction. she did not rule but lead.

in an extended truth, aes sedai served everyone. the world. in the old tongue aes sedai meant servant of all )

At that is one fact many find uncomfortable.

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( Undaunted, for you will not be excused of honesty through omission, madam: )

If not a man, all sects serve a purpose. A mission.

[cairhien]

Each takes her own mission, as to where her interests lie or are needed.

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And you?

[cairhien]

I've been on a mission for twenty years.

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You do not wish to speak of it.

[cairhien]

It's a mission that only two know I'm on, something dangerous in its knowledge.

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I ask once: does it dishonour you?

[cairhien]

No. It's to save the world.

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From what destruction?

[cairhien]

The Dark One. Though he's imprisoned that prison will fall.

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And our... current exploits distract from your mission.

[cairhien]

Those I protect are vulnerable, unknowing of the world. And in what they must do.

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You deem us knowing?

[cairhien]

I trust you or I'd have said nothing of it.

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Too much kindness sleeps in you.

[cairhien]

Where would we be if we lacked it?

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At times, alive.