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The roo the wall, his ears plugged by Pevara’s weaves The other tere still unconscious Androl had hit them hard, and he intended to see that they didn’t awaken anytime soon

Pevara had shielded them, but she couldn’t possibly maintain three shields at once if the men tried to break free Aes Sedai usually used more than one sister to hold one le channeler, strong or not She could tie off those shields, but Tai how to escape a tied-off shield

Yes, best to h it would be just to cut their throats, he didn’t have the stomach for it Instead he sent a tiny thread of Spirit and Air to touch each of their eyelids He had to use a single weave, and a weak one, but he ed to touch all of their eyes If the lids cracked a tiny bit, he’d know That would have to be enough

Pevara was still thinking about her fa the truth; she did hate the Darkfriends All of them It was aafter all of these years

He would not have suspected that in this woman who seemed so often to smile He could sense that she hurt And, oddly, that she feltlonely

"My father killed hi to

She looked at him

"My mother pretended it was an accident for years", Androl continued "He did it out in the woods, leaped froht before and explained what he was going to do"

"She didn’t try to stop hihast

"No", Androl said "Only a few years before she found the mother’s last embrace, I was able to pry sohtened of hientle What had changed, in those last few years, to make her fear his in the shadows That he’d started to go mad"

"Ah"

"You asked me why I came to the Black Tower You wanted to knohy I asked to be tested Well this thing that I am, it answers a question for me It tells me who my father was, and why he did what he felt he needed to do

"I can see the signs now Our business did too well Father could find quarries of stone and veins of metal when nobody else could Men hired him to find valuable deposits for theood I couldsee it in him at the end, Pevara I was only ten, but I remember

"The fear in his eyes I know that fear now" He hesitated "My father jumped off that cliff to save his fa what I aain, fat drops hitting thelike pebbles The door into the shop opened, and E there, and looked relieved Then he saw the other two and started "What have you two done?"

"What needed to be done", Androl said, standing "What took you so long?"

"I nearly started another confrontation with Coteren", E at the two captive Asha’oad us, but Coteren see to tolerate us er"