Ring! Ring!
"hello? Dragon Reborn's office how may I direct your call?"
"May I speak to Rand al'Thor please?"
"One moment please-It is I the Dragon Reborn, what do you want?"
"Randy! it's me, Grandma Carol! How've you been?"
"Oh hey grandma! I'm good, just busy being the Dragon Reborn and all..."
"Oh yes, I understand, well i was just wondering if you have time off your busy schedule to come visit your old grandma?"
"Gee, gram, well, we're kind of preparing for a war and all, but, oh what the hey I'll be there tomorrow! I just can't say no to your honeycakes!"
"Oh great honey! I can't wait, oh I have so much to do an so little time, well I'll let you go there Randy, I'll see you tomorrow!!"
"bye gram"

********THE NEXT DAY********

"Randy, oh look how you've grown!! Such a handsome boy! I'll bet the girls are all over you!"
Rand gulped nervously "You don't know how right you are...."
"Oh, well, come in, come in! I haven't seen you in so long! Tell me, how are all the folk from emond's field?"
"well, it turns out that mat, perrin and i were ta'veren all along!"
"really?? i would have never guessed..."
"Anyway, egwene and nynaeve are aes sedai now! egwene is the amyrlin seat, and shes planning to regain control of the white tower. Nynaeve recently captured one of the forsaken, and is currently married to a warder who has been teetering on the brink of death since his aes sedai, moiraine 'died'..."
"not that pretty thing, egwene? i always thought you two would marry...andd nynaeve? that short girl who always hit people with sticks? ha! i taugt her everything she knew about being a good wisdom...just whack em and yell...so whick forsaken was it? i'll bet it was mesaana..always trying to 'teach' people, just flaming gets in the way..."
"actually, no gram, it was Mogheiden"
"really? never would have guessed..."
"so what about you? how have you been?"
"well, i defeated ba'alzamon a few times, then there was asmodean, Sammael, Bel'al, balthamel, geez their names sound so much alike! well, once you've met em, all the forsaken are all alike really..."
"now what about bela? that horse that everyone took a liking to? boy, i sure loved riding her as a girl..."
"gram, she wasn't alive when you were a girl..."
"oh sure she was! only she was a boy then and her name was bucky."
"gram? did you take your medication this morning?"
"oh suuuuuure i did! right after that nice man came to my door and asked me if i would be nae'blis..."
rand began to worry, and headed for the door...
"well gram, ive got to get back to planning a war and all, but i'll call you and we'll talk again soon. Bye!" Rand kissed his grandmother goodbyye and walked through the gateway he had just made. Ring! Ring! Soon after he had left, gram's telephone rang.
"hello?"
"GRAM CAROL? WOULD THOU BE NAE'BLIS?"
"now, one of your salesmen already came to you door and i turned him down, so..."
"BUT IF YOU JOIN NOW YOU GET A 50% DISCOUNT..."
"Oh no! not...a...discount..." he had struck a nerve, no grandma can resist a 50% discount, you know how thrifty they are...
"Oh alright!"

~*THE END*~

love, nyn