celestialsoul: (// but he talks like a gentleman)
[Filter: Jace]

... it's a beautiful night, isn't it? Ah, it's like ... the sky is just a portal to the stars, and if you look too long, you get dizzy. A nice, full Eban ... it's practically light out, ah hahah ... and aren't these apples just as good as you've heard.

And ... and I'm here with the most important person in the entire world. The man I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. Just the two of us, together, under the moonslight and the stars and the apple tree ... in Franel.

I love you. I love this. ... I wouldn't change anything in my life. Isn't that strange, considering?

But I wouldn't change anything at all.

[there is a pause]

... so ... I thought ... whatever it is you clearly are trying to say ... maybe you can write it down here, instead ...?
celestialsoul: (// like you imagined when you were young)
[Filter: Franelcrew]

... I'm not sure what --

Ah.

I'm not upset. I ... not really. I'm ... confused, and worried, but about Franel not being here, I'm more just ...

If it were just me, I suppose that would be one thing, but it's all of us. Whatever it was that made it here before, it's gone now. And ... and it wasn't really Franel. It was empty and dead, and ... ah, but ... but we could see it, and now we can't, and ...

It's just ... not what I -- what any of us expected, I think ... I ...
celestialsoul: (// see the place where you used to live)
Ah, I'm starting to think that we might not make it today ... I thought for sure we'd see it in the distance by now, but I still don't see anything at all ...

I don't think my poor dress can spend another day all rolled up in a pack! Ah, you're all going to have to help me fix the poor thing when we stop ...!
celestialsoul: (// you can dip your feet)
[Filter: Franelcrew]

Ah, there, you see ...~? That wasn't so bad at all! And now we're on the move! We got everything done and the sun is just barely peeking over the horizon and we're off to Franel! Oh, this was worth it, I'm so glad you all came. Jace said I'd never get you up, but I did!

I can't believe this! I'm going to get married!

... ah, and -- don't you go looking through the packs, Jace! My gown is well hidden! You won't find it ...

And nobody help him!

Oh, this is such a nice morning!
celestialsoul: (// you sit there in your heartache)
[Filter: Jace]

Why didn't we set our date before this happens? Now ... ah ... I don't know if we'll ever be able to get out of her and get married without seeming ... oh, I don't know.

... you know how you said if you'd had your way, we would have been married in the tent and we'd be together, now? I ... I'm starting to feel that way, myself ... I just can't stand not being married to you any longer, especially not this has made everything so uncertain, and ...
celestialsoul: (// save you from your old ways)
[Filter: Franelcrew]

Well, I think I'm mostly ready. It's ... hard to dress for something that you have to take your clothes off to actually engage in, isn't it ...? Ah ...

So ... ah, I just ... want to be sure --

The dragons are staying here, right?
celestialsoul: (// every once in a little while)
[Filter: Lauren]

I think he's angry at me ...

This is so ... ridiculous, isn't it ...? I just wanted a dance! When he said he would, I thought that it would be ...

But ...

But it wasn't. He just glowered the whole time and he was so stiff and he didn't --

What's the big deal? What's wrong with him, lately? It seems like ever since he proposed ...
celestialsoul: (// save you from your old ways)
[Filter: Franelcrew]

Ah -- Dragons!

Has anyone heard the rumours? I ... I think I may know why things have been so tense here today, and we've been asked to keep to ourselves ...
celestialsoul: (// if we take it slow)
[Filter: Those in Mansoure except Tarmon]

Ah ...

It seems as if he's still licking his wounds, doesn't it? I ... I really am grateful for what you did for us, Lord Glenn. If not for your assistance ... that all could have ended very differently.

But now that he's minding himself, we've been able to spend so much time enjoying the city! Mansoure ... Mansoure is as lovely as I remember. I spent so much time here as a girl ...

-- and yet.

I ... it seems different, in little ways, doesn't it? Maybe only because it's been so long, but, ah haha, I swear some buildings have moved, or changed, or ...

I wonder if the rest of the North will be so strange. Ah! And then ... Eblar! I've never been, did you all know that? Not once ...

Hm, and then ...


[Filter: Jace]

I had a thought. About -- about the wedding. When you were talking the other night, it started me thinking, and now ...
celestialsoul: (// if we take it slow)
Ah ...

Ah haha ... this is ... so strange, isn't it? The fields and forests of Northern Dentoria. I ... we came through this exact same pass, almost eight years ago, did you all know that? We walked this exact same trail, these same steps ... Dragons, it was a lifetime ago.

I -- ah, I must thank you, Lord Hasten, and Lord Glenn and Lord Fartgus Lord Kiefer and -- and Lord Tarmon, as well, of course, yes ... for your invitation to be a part of the main column. I ... it's a pleasure, if a ... a strange one. I -- we -- that is, some of us knew some of you, before, and ...

... this is so different than it was, when we first came back here. Then, I thought I was just going back home. I really thought that Franel would be there, that everything would be back to normal as soon as we saw the walls rising up, but now ...

... ah, well.

Is -- isn't it a beautful countryside, though, everyone? I ... it really is beautiful.
celestialsoul: (// you can dip your feet)
Hm ...

You know, everyone ... ah, I had the most amazing dream, last night. The more I think about it, the more I think that maybe it was trying to say something to me.
celestialsoul: (// you play forgiveness)
Ah ...

Wait, now ... why -- why exactly are we making a stage? I assumed it was for dancing, but Pearl says that she hasn't heard anything about it. Are we ... just ... going to watch Fayre dance?

Ah, though -- I'm sure that would be, er, very enjoyable!
celestialsoul: (// like you imagined when you were young)
[Filter: Private]

He looks so ... old.

Ah -- not old, but ... but it was a ... a sobering realization of how much time has really passed. How long it's been since I was Lady Celeste of House Franel. Eight years ... eight years since I last saw that man. It's ... easy to lose track of how much I've grown. Of Lawrence, of Kail ...

But seeing Lord Hasten with those ghosts of frownlines ...

It's a different world, isn't it? And I'm a different person.

And after today ...

... ah.

Ah, who ... knows what will happen, after today. Who knows ...

[Filter: Franelcrew]

-- all right. I -- we need to decide for certain who's going inside. Everything is relying on us, and we cannot falter. The situation has changed so much from when we first made these plans ... so ... let's talk, and decide, and then ...

And then ... see what happens, I suppose.
celestialsoul: (// save you from your old ways)
[Filter: Lauren]

Ah ...

Lauren, is -- is something happening? The pegasus knights all seem to be in a tizzy, and Nynaeve -- I think she senses everyone leaving ... she's been chewing at her bridle and dancing for a bit, now. I keep thinking she's going to take off into the air at any moment ... Keeping her in hand is getting more and more difficult ...

What's ...?
celestialsoul: (// you can dip your feet)
[Filter: Jace]

Ah ...

You poor thing ... just look at you. Lauren was right ... I can count every one of your ribs ...

We're going to need to fatten you up, I think ...~
celestialsoul: (// you play forgiveness)
[Filter: Jace]

Ah -- do you mind if I --

I have to ... do something. Ah, in my journal. Do you mind ... waiting ... until after I'm done that? I ... ah, I don't really know how long I'm going to be, but ...

[Filter: Kail]

Are you ... busy?
celestialsoul: (// see the place where you used to live)
[Filter: Ladies in Quen]

Tomorrow is Rose Day! Ah, and we've been giving such a gift, having this kitchen and the supply train from the North and ah, we're all together, and -- and I think we should all cook together! Like we usuaully to, in -- in simpler times. Ah, please, everyone, won't you say yes? Doesn't that sound wonderful ...?
celestialsoul: (// easy now watch it go)
[Filter: Private]

... I'll see him again, soon.

I -- I know I will. We'll have another stop, and ... ah, and then we'll be together again, so ... I should just stop -- ah, fretting about it.

He misses me as much as I miss him. That's ... somehow, that makes me feel ...

Ah haha ...


I just -- I need to focus on this. Do as good a job as possible, and then ... then we'll be together again. Just think about that, and ... and nothing else.

[Filter: Lauren]

... ah, I ...

... how ... how are you feeling, Lauren?
celestialsoul: (// save you from your old ways)
[Filter: Franelcrew]

Is --

Is it true that you might be meeting us here? In -- in Forna, I suppose? Ah, though calling this place that seems ...

Well, that's more something Uncle Keagan or Nessa or Lauren could talk about, really. I just -- I just heard someone say that you would be, and --
celestialsoul: (// but he talks like a gentleman)
[Filter: Private]

I ...

... ah, I ... suppose maybe, she's not ...

...

[Filter: Jace]

... are you having a nice Festival?
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