Min and her Uses
by sidious
An Advisor tries to dissuade Rand regarding Min’s usefulness…
Advisor : But my lord!
Rand : Shut up, shut up, shut up!
Advisor : I tell you Sir, she is useless to the series.
Rand : Don’t be ridiculous. She has a unique and amazing skill. Min, show them.
Min : That Aes Sedai is going to die.
Rand : See! Brilliant!
Advisor : Oh really? And when will that be?
Min : Anything between three days and seventy years from now. I don’t know how, or where, or anything else really.
Rand : Still, it’s invaluable information. Again Min, he’s skeptical…
Min : Logain will be great.
Advisor : Amazing! Wait… you mean… the regenerated former False Dragon who is possibly second only to Rand al’Thor will gain acclaim. Hold back all the great poets, this is legendary stuff!
Min : …
Rand : Again Min, again!
Min : Cadsuane will teach you something Rand.
Advisor : And this could be…?
Min : She might teach you how to weave a super-Forsaken killer, or maybe only how to eat Sushi according to modern Seanchan etiquette. Either way, she’ll teach you something. At some stage in the future…
Advisor : You mean…
Min : Yes, anything between three days and seventy years from now.
Advisor : I rest my case!
Rand : What?
Advisor : But my lord, can you see how useless this all is! Her visions haven’t affected anything.
Rand : Not true, I knew that Colavaere was going to hang.
Advisor : And you couldn’t stop it, so what is the point?
Rand : The point is that I knew.
Advisor : Argh! And what do you see around that person, Min?
Min : A shield made of glass with a yellow flag flying around it.
Advisor : And?
Min : It’s something unpleasant.
Advisor : See! Useless! And my lord, taking her into battle!
Rand : What about that?
Advisor : You admit that meeting the Daughter of the Nine Moons is a trap and you have taken the strongest channelers in the world along with you as a personal guard. Min can’t even channel. What if the Forsaken descend on you?
Rand : Min is competent with knives, and she can see the future.
Advisor : She has never killed anything with those knives, and she sees a murky mudpool of futuristic visions.
Rand : Enough.
Advisor : My Lord, one last thing. If you die at the Final Battle…
Min : Don’t say that!!!
Advisor : What?
Min : He’s not going to die!
Advisor : Oh yes, how wrong of me to think that the main target of the Dark One and all his generals might die in the Final Battle. Wake up, woman!
Rand : Don’t speak to her like that! Min, I might die.
Min : No you won’t!
Rand : Okay.
Advisor : Before I go my Lord, there is the issue of the Black Tower. Mazrim Taim is turning the Ash’aman against you. Logain suspects they…
Rand : I don’t have time for that. I’m very busy.
Min : Rand, let’s fornicate again.
Rand : Okay.
Advisor : I resign.