he should. if he had, he'll consider later, then a lot of things would've gone very differently. but instead, he watches the lightning strike true (wonders, somewhere in the back of his mind, if he can recreate this weave later. maybe? he can see the shape he created unthinkingly), and stays frozen in indecision. he just feels a terrible fear that he might have killed amos too, that in one night he might have two bodies to his name, then starts forward a step as if to check that amos isn't disintegrating into his shard...
...and amos lunges at him with a roar that seems like it ought to burst his eardrums. on pure reflex, rand puts his sword between the two of them with a slashing motion. it's barely an attack, startled as he is, more dangerous for amos's momentum than any power rand's put into it. and as he backs away, he stumbles on something, losing his balance —
(something: he'll realize later, the body of the guard, and feel so sick that it'll be a relief he's been refusing to eat.) ]
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he should. if he had, he'll consider later, then a lot of things would've gone very differently. but instead, he watches the lightning strike true (wonders, somewhere in the back of his mind, if he can recreate this weave later. maybe? he can see the shape he created unthinkingly), and stays frozen in indecision. he just feels a terrible fear that he might have killed amos too, that in one night he might have two bodies to his name, then starts forward a step as if to check that amos isn't disintegrating into his shard...
...and amos lunges at him with a roar that seems like it ought to burst his eardrums. on pure reflex, rand puts his sword between the two of them with a slashing motion. it's barely an attack, startled as he is, more dangerous for amos's momentum than any power rand's put into it. and as he backs away, he stumbles on something, losing his balance —
(something: he'll realize later, the body of the guard, and feel so sick that it'll be a relief he's been refusing to eat.) ]