What you need to know to read this story...


The Wheel of Time is a fantasy series. The books follow the events of
the fulfillment of Prophecy. My story takes place in what was called
the Age of Legends and the time of Madness which is a part of history
in Jordan's books taking place a thousand years from the time the
events in his books occur.

During the Age of Legends there were male and female Aes Sedai, which
means Servants of All in the Old Tongue. Aes Sedai are like
sorcerers, they draw upon the One Power, which is the power the
Creator used to create the world and to move the Wheel of Time. The
Wheel of time has seven spokes and each spoke is an age. As the wheel
turns, each age comes and goes leaving memories that fade to legend
and legends to myth so that even myth is long forgotten when the age
that gave it birth comes again. The One Power consists of saidin, the
male half, and saidar, the female half that work with and against
each other to turn the Wheel of time.

During the Age of Legends, a few Aes Sedai drilled a hole into the
Dark One's prison at Shayol Ghul. The Dark One is the antithesis of
the Creator and was imprisoned by the Creator at the moment of
Creation. The drilling released the Dark One allowing him to touch
the world which caused The War of the Shadow until it ended when Lews
Therin Talemon, known as the Dragon, led one hundred male Aes Sedai
to Shayol Ghul to seal the Dark One in his prison. They succeeded by
the Dark One's counterstroke tainted saidin, the male half. Like
water with a thin layer of oil on top. Saidin is still pure but it
cannot be touched without touching the taint. The taint eventually
caused those who touched saidin to go insane. Known as the Time of
Madness, the male Aes Sedai used the One Power in their madness and
tore up the world. Where seas once where, they rose dry land, they
flattened mountains, and built mountains where flat land once was.
The entire landscape of the world was changed as thousands of male
Aes Sedai went mad. People and nations were scattered across the face
the land. Lews Therin killed all those he loved, and earned the name
Kinslayer. He died and where he died a mountain rose, a mountain
known as Dragonmount where prophecy states he will be reborn again to
face the Dark One because what the Creator made, men could not
duplicate. The seals would weaken and the Dark One would be free to
touch the world again.

The Dai'shain Aiel where people who followed a belief system known as
the Way of the Leaf. True pacifists, they will never do violence even
to save themselves. They served the Aes Sedai during the Age of
Legends. Their descendants became some of the greatest fighters, and
hardiest people having abandoned the Way of the Leaf during their
exile.

I hope this gives you a rough idea of the background for this story.
I would suggest that if you like to read good stories that you get
this series. It is ten times better than Tolkein in my humble
opinion.

Blair walked through the empty broken streets of Paaren Disen trying
not to look at the empty metal skeletons of the jo-cars and jumpers,
and the blackened remains of once towering spires. Jonai had gone to
the Hall of the Servants, mostly to plead with Solinda Sedai to allow
some of the Dashain to stay behind, to continue to serve. Blair did
not think Solinda would agree.

As soon as Jonai had left, Blair had snuck away from the wagons that
waited Jonai's return. He had some one that he must see as well, and
tears stung his eyes as he hurried to his destination.

In the shattered remains of building, Blair found Jim sitting on a
large piece of rubble staring out into space, his eyes glazed over.,
perhaps in thought, perhaps in madness. Blair shivered at the
thought, he had heard of the events in Tzora. His mother had been
among those who had linked arms with other Dashain giving the
citizens of Tzora time to flee before a taint crazed Jaric Mondoran
killed them all. Looking at Jim, Blair wondered if those events would
repeat themselves here in Paaren Disen. But there were no citizens
for Jim to kill, and soon not even the Dashain would remain.

Blair was pulled from his thoughts, when Jim turned to look at him
with his icy blue eyes. Blair looked into their depths relieved to
find no trace of the madness that was sure to come. Jim had been
studying in the Hall of the Servants when Lews Therin had led the
Hundred Companions to Shayol Ghul, and the thereby doomed all male
Aes Sedai…and the world. But it did not matter. He was Aes Sedai
now, and the taint made no distinction.

Already the Hundred Companions tore the world apart in their madness,
and Blair knew that one day Jim would join them in their madness. But
for today, the Jim that Blair knew looked upon him with blue eyes
filled with tears and love.

Blair found himself in Jim's arms hugging the Aes Sedai he had served
for five years for what he knew to be the last time he would ever see
him again until the Wheel turned again. Light have mercy on us, Blair
thought.

"I thought you were supposed to be gone. Solinda said she would send
the Dashain away." Jim said.

"The wagons await Jonai. Solinda Sedai summoned him to her in the
Hall of the Servants." Blair answered. "I took the opportunity to
come and see you again."

Jim wiped away a tear that shed from Blair's eye. He had not cried
since he was four years old, but Blair felt that he would cry for a
long time to come.

"Solinda asked me to help her in her task." Jim said. "The taint…the
madness doesn't grip me yet."

"What task?" Blair asked. Strange to ask Jim that. To serve an Aes
Sedai meant to obey without question to follow where they lead. It
also meant that they saw to the Aes Sedai's health and general well
being. Blair had failed in that task. He could not save Jim from the
madness.

Jim shrugged, "I don't know. I will help her though. She says it will
be the last task that I will perform. She said it would kill me, this
task. It matters not." Jim looked at Blair. "You should get back to
the wagons. Jonai will have finished his business with Solinda by
now. They will wonder where you are at."

"Jonai knows or will have guessed." Blair said. "Why does Solinda
Sedai send us away?"

"Because the Dashain still have something left to do. That is all
Solinda said. She has one hope, one vision, that perhaps we may save
something. Something important. Perhaps my task is a part of that
vision as well."

"I don't wish to leave." Blair said.

"You Dashain have more courage than I, for I could not bare it to
have you watch me die…or go mad. I want to know you are safe. As safe
as anyone can be in this world. Before I die, I want to have the
knowledge that you still live. Please Blair." Jim took Blair into
another hug, and eventually their lips found each other.

The kiss was as desperate and as passionate as the situation, and
they fell into each other's arms deepening the kiss.

Eventually they found themselves on the floor, Blair stripped of his
work clothes, his cadin'sor, till he lay above an equally nude Jim,
their lips locked together as their bodies where locked together,
Blair inside Jim, their passions riding each other.

Blair thrust hard and fast, hands roaming over Jim's well toned body,
while the male Aes Sedai groaned in pleasure beneath the Dashain
Aiel.

Eventually, spent, his seed inside Jim's body, Blair rolled over onto
his back, sweat dripping down his body.

Jim rolled onto his side and stroked Blair's cheek, "Go," he
whispered. "Be safe, be free."

Blair's eyes once again filled with tears, but he gathered his
cadin'sor and dressed leaving his lover, his Aes Sedai behind to face
a choice. Death or madness. Blair knew which one Jim would choose.

Blair found his way to the wagons. Jonai looked at him with knowing
eyes, but said nothing. Blair was not surprised to hear that Solinda
had denied their request. By late evening, no Dashain remained in the
once great city of Paaren Disen.

That evening, Jim Traveled to the place chosen for the task along
with ninety nine other Aes Sedai, men and women both. Young male Aes
Sedai, the taint barely touching them, not yet gripped in the
madness. With them came Solinda and Someshta, last of the Nym. Jim
watched at Solinda placed one of the Seals used by Lews Therin to
seal the Dark One's prison again, and Lew Therin's banner into a
golden chest. Jim had already heard that Lew Therin Telamon was now
known as the Kinslayer. Not for the first time, Jim wondered if that
would have been his fate had he not chosen to help Solinda.

Solinda had told him what they planned, and Jim had shivered at her
audacity. Why create a pool of untainted saidin. Of what use would it
be? Jim did not know, only that it involved a Foretelling by Deindre
Sedai, who was with another group of Aes Seai somewhere else
performing yet another task.

Jim did not hesitate as he drew upon tainted saidin, and allowed
himself to be linked with the others. As the flows were woven by
Solinda, Jim did not see them. Instead he one vision of Blair, a
child with his blue eyes sitting on his knee, and he smiled as tears
filled his eyes and his strength faded away.


The End

One Vision from the Motion Picture Soundtrack for Iron Eagle
By Queen
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When I was young,
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And a dark rain falls,
And in my heart it shows,
Look what they've done to my dream.
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one true religion,
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