Fanfic:Lysira's Return Fic

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Lysira's Return Fic
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The Black Ajah never gives up.

Lysira Viathene had thought that she could follow the example of her parents, take her young child and her lover and go to ground, and not be heard from again. It was a nice dream, while it lasted…

Sitting atop her chestnut mare, the diminutive woman looked at the road into Hama Valon. It had been a long time, she reflected with a sigh. The Gaidar, who should have been a mature woman in her fifties, carried the look of one barely forty. Her eyes, so dark a brown as to be black, were tired and haunted.

“It’ll be alright, Mother,” the young man riding beside her said with a kind smile.

‘I know,’ she signed back. ‘This was the right decision. If anyone can protect you, it will be the Tower.’ Her own failure to that end weighed her spirit down.

Cade--as he chose to go by in his older years--turned back to the view. “I did always want to see the Tower.”

For a moment, his mother was lost in thoughts of the attack on their Cairheinen manor. There had just been too many of them. Her mother and father had not been there to lend their power, and Jhered… Well, he’d been gone a long while by then. She thought of the strange Object of Power and the way it had tried to pull her, but had somehow backfired and affected her age. Perhaps that was a blessing, of a sort, although felt odd.

Taking a deep breath, she glanced at her son with a smile and then urged her horse forward.

Why did they want her son? They had gone to the manor when he was but a child, so why were they after him and not her? Not her parents?

Maybe they would find their answers here, back at the Grey Tower, where Lysira’s life had truly begun. Perhaps it would begin anew.