Any Day You Wake Up, Maybe You

There Were Many Good Years. Good Decades, Good Centuries. We Believed We Were Living In Paradise. Perhaps That Was Our Downfall. We Wanted Our Lives To Be Perfect, So We Ignored Imperfections. Problems Were Magnified Through Inattention And War Might Have Become Inevitable If The Bore Hadn't Ever Made.

Tuon's Eyes Snapped Open, And Despite The Dim Light, She Focused Directly On Mat. She Saw The Knife In His Hand, Ready To Throw. Then She Looked Over Her Shoulder.

I'm Not Certain That I Draw From Any One Culture More Than Others. Many Myths And Legends Of Many Different Cultures Are Really The Same Story When You Get To The Heart Of It. They Are Often Cultural Cautionary Tales About How We Should Behave And How We Should Live.

Humankind Is Made For Uncertainty, Struggle, Choice And Change.

Come To Think Of It, An Aes Sedai Would Probably Follow A Man Off A Cliff, Too, If Only To Explain To Him - In Detail - All The Things He Was Doing Incorrectly In The Way He Went About Killing Himself.