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[theravenboy]

Not long ago, the Circle of the Light took to a room in the west wing of the castle; night and day, in rotating shifts, the Old Ones focus on holding the damaged spells that guard the Summer Country. Half of the Circle, including Merriman and Will, is currently on duty, and the other half sleeps. Bran looked in on the Circle this afternoon, but there was nothing for him to see or do in that room; there were only Old Ones, hands linked in a closed chain, staring blankly into the air.

Bran has no other duties, for the moment, and he can hardly focus for the weight of the power pushing on his mind. He would seek out Moiraine, except that she has gone to Milliways. Instead, he crosses the castle courtyard to walk to his mother's chambers.

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[gramarye1971]

'I would hazard a guess that Milliways served as a bridge of sorts.' The statement is flat, and just this side of irritated. 'He would not be the first to find the way here from there. And if he came following a scent, so to speak, he would have a means of tracking his quarry to ground.'

One corner of his mouth twitches at the thought.

'The Hunt had that power in our world; it enabled them to chase the Dark to the ends of the earth.'

[theravenboy]

"Well." Bran sighs. "A good guess, and we are not likely to get anything better. In any case, nothing else is likely to happen right now, and you are hardly standing up, either of you. If I commanded you, as your regent, would you get something to eat and some rest?"

[sign-seeker.livejournal.com]

Will breathes out in tired, wan amusement.

And inclines his head with a faint irony that is, nonetheless, not refusal.

[gramarye1971]

'As you would have it,' Merlion replies, unavoidably formal, but his next words turn the formality into an irony of its own. 'Though I for one intend to seek out a suitable dosage of willowbark or the nearest approximation to aspirin before doing either, if that is agreeable to you?'

[theravenboy]

Bran's lip twitches. "Only if I can share it with you."