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She leveled a s "I knew it!" he exclaiuard You alere"

Selucia scowled "What are you doing here, you fool?"

"Oh, just going for a stroll", Mat said, picking hiht air is said to be good for a fellow The sea breeze That sort of thing"

"Did you cli over the side of the balcony, as if looking for a rope or ladder

"What? You don’t clirip"

She gave hi If Selucia was on the lookout for assassins, then Tuon was probably all right He nodded toward the crossbohich was still leveled toward hihed and lowered it

"Many thanks", Mat said "You could put a , and nor short on eyes these days"

"What did you do?" Selucia asked dryly "Go dicing with a bear?"

"Selucia!" Mat said, walking past her to enter the rooms "That was quite near to a joke I should think that, with a little effort, we row you a sense of huerie and chargeso’jhin Two coppers only, tonight’ "

"You bet the eye on so open the door He chuckled Light! That was strangely close to the truth "Very cute"

It’s a bet I won, he thought, no matter how it may seem Matrim Cauthon was the only man to have diced with the fate of the world itself in the prize pouch Of course, next time, they could find some fool hero to take his place Like Rand or Perrin Those tere so full of herois out their es that tried to for of those two

"Where is she?" Mat asked, looking about the bedchamber The sheets of the bed were disturbed--he earnestly did not iine pink ribbons tied to that headboard--but Tuon was nowhere to be seen

"Out", Selucia said

"Out? It’s the ht!"

"Yes A time when only assassins would visit You are lucky that my aim was off, Matrim Cauthon"

"Never you bloody uard"

"I don’t knohat youthe little crossbow vanish into her robes "I am so’jhin to the Empress, may she live forever I alancing at the bed "You’re decoying for her, aren’t you? Lying in her bed? With a crossbow ready, should assassins try to sneak in?"

Selucia said nothing

"Well, where is she?" Mat dean himself has hired men to kill her!"

"That?" Selucia asked "You’re worried about that!"

"Bloody right, I a to worry about", Selucia said "He’s too good a soldier to jeopardize our current stabilization efforts Krisa is the one you should be worried about She has brought in three assassins frolanced at the balcony doorway Mat noticed for the first tiht have been blood "I have caught two so far Pity I assu that he ic--somehow be that assassin