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23, ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท, Lesbian/Ace, Green Ajah Sometimes "baby girl" is a 56 year old actress (art on the header by @thatordinaryoddity)

Chapter 28 is going to hit even harder after 3x05 ๐Ÿซ 

Little teaser:

She told herself it was nothing. That ache in her ribs, the scratch in her throat; it was the bullet wound, still grumbling weeks later. It had to be. That bastard in Strawberry had aimed to kill, and near succeeded. One shot to the gut and a near-death scrape had to come with lasting consequences - that was just common sense. But that hadnโ€™t satisfied Moiraine, whoโ€™d stared her down like she could see straight through the excuses and the grit.

What really affected me with Egwene's dreamwalking is that this is a woman who has lost a bit of herself and her connection to others due to trauma. She uses Tel'aran'rhiod to reach out to her loved ones, whether they are physically or emotionally cut off from her. They cannot see or hear her though, so Egwene is haunting them, content in seeing them at peace again. In turn, we see through the characters' dream that sleep is the space where we can find again those we lost, those who are far away from us, those we will lose, even those we can never be.

Sleep becomes the last refuge from grief. Unlike memories it is a world in its own right where the people we lost persist and where we can meet them.

And that might be one of the truest, kindest depictions of grief I've seen recently.

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