Missing scenes from the Cleansing of Saidin
by sidious
Okay… I asked Tor to send me the PoV’s which they edited out of the Cleansing of Saidin in WH. I can see why they removed them, but judge for yourselves…
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(Graendal)
Oh damn. There are some of them now. I wonder how many of them there are? I could see three sets of eyes. Maybe they’re a circle of thirteen all with sa’angreals! Hmm… maybe I can sneak up on them like I did on Asmodean. I’ll have to walk in a really big circle then and ambush them. Just walk forward Graendal. Don’t let them see the whites of your eyes. Maybe if I sing a country song they’ll think I’m oblivious. Damn it! If only I could remember how to whistle without the Power.
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(Alivia)
I can see a woman. She is glowing so bright I can barely see her. Nynaeve told me that means she can channel. She looks angry, but she had nice breasts. Why was I born so flat chested? Even her dress is better than mine. Damned gray wool. As if being a damane for four hundred years wasn’t bad fashion in its self. Well I have better jewellery, and I’m taller. Oh look… a fireball. Oh look… it’s gone. I’ll be damned if I know what just happened. You think you can take me wench? Let’s party!
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(Semirhage)
I’ve been walking around for hours. Damn, I wish someone would attack me! Come to think of it I arrived in a snowy glade, and suddenly I’m standing on a sand dune. Actually… where the hell am I ?!
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(Aran’gar)
Ha! Three Aes Sedai and a Warder. Damn I love being a reincarnated hybrid female-saidin channeler!
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(Nynaeve)
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(Moghedien)
By hiding behind this hill I am reinforcing my status as one of the most dangerous women of the previous Age. Hello little lady bug! Will you be my friend?
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(Flinn)
Hmm… A man bursting with saidin. I don’t know him. Goodbye man, whoever you are.
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by DomA
Demandred :
Okay, so I draw at 96% of the maximum strength, and there we have a circle of 4 with one man but the woman seems to lead... let's say average strength to be sure - so that gives me a dexterity handicap of hmmm... 3.2... (nah... today's not a good time tot cheat on that) 4.6 (which is already better than LTT at 4.7). If I remove a factor of 45 for the weave unraveller... hmmm... let's see..... damn, it's gonna have to be the stab in the back tactic again, unless.
OUCH!!! CRAZY SO-CALLED AES SEDAI! DON'T THROW FIREBALLs AT ME! I'm no foot soldier, I'm a bloody GENERAL! *mumbles* Bloody barbarians who don't know how to fight clean, I'm out of here, and it's no DEFEAT, it's a damn TACTICAL RETREAT - put that in your pipe Lews Therin.
Oh, dark... At least those peasants can't block my gateway for retreat- nobody can do that but I - and Lews Therin, after I taught him how, but he never got it quite right.