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Fanatic-Templar Send a noteboard - 04/02/2010 06:13:00 PM

One would expect that the length of time between steps 4 and 5 would be the same as between steps 1 and 8...


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Rand stepped up to the lip of the ridge, removing the access key from his pocket. It started to glow just faintly, a red light coming from its very heart. Nynaeve inhaled sharply.
"Neither of you were there when Callandor failed me," he said into the night. "It happened twice. Once I tried to use it to raise the dead, but I got only a puppeted body. Once I tried to use it to destroy the Seanchan, but I caused as much death among my own armies as I caused among theirs.
"Cadsuane told me that the second failure came from a flaw in Callandor itself. It cannot be controlled by a lone man, you see. It only works if he's in a box. Callandor is a carefully enticing leash, intended to make me surrender willingly."
The access key's globe burst alight with a more brilliant color, seeming crystalline. The light within was scarlet, the core brilliant and bright. As if someone had dropped a glowing rock into a pool of blood.
"I see a different answer to my problems," Rand said, voice still almost a whisper. "Both times Callandor failed me, I was being reckless with my emotion. I allowed temper to drive me. I can't kill in anger, Min. I have to keep that anger inside; I must channel it as I channel the One Power. Each death must be
deliberate. Intentional."



There's some more dialogue after this too, followed by Rand making the Balefire, then an instant before he lets it off.

More than enough time for warning, panic and escape.


This is no place for uninformed theories. Making Fionwe read up chapters he already knows and type them out in large portions irritates the board, and what's infinitely worse... me.


At first I thought this was a post by Cannoli :P.
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