[ Moiraine shakes her head, frowning a little in thought. ]

We will have been brought here for some reason. Someone has gone to the trouble of dragging us here from our own worlds -- to do what? Enslave or kill us? What is this 'ritual' I've heard them speak of?

[ She sighs. These are all mostly rhetorical questions; she doesn't expect him to have the answers. And yet-- ] We've some greater purpose for being here. I'm nearly certain of it.

[ This is a woman who believes strongly in fate and has conducted most of her adult life around a series of prophecies. She's probably not going to change her mind. ]