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Egwene took in all of this in in for this strange force She found nothing to latch on to until she sensed the channeling The glow of saidar surrounded hundreds of woe dresses made entirely of stiff black silk The dresses were not tied at the waists, but instead pulled relatively tight around the shoulders, and flared wide toward the botto from ties at the front, just below the neck The faces of the wowene said, letting go of saidar "Don’t let theloinking out fro out a curse She began weaving a gateway to escape

A dozen different weaves of fire suddenly thrashed the area where Rowene and the other woh the camp as weaves of the One Power destroyed tents, consuwene reached the corabbed hiround as a ball of fire passed just overhead, then crashed into a collection of tents nearby

"Light!" Gawyn said "What is it?"

"Sharans" Lelaine, breathless, huddled down beside thehispered

Lelaine nodded "Accounts from the Cairienin before the Aiel War are plentiful, if not very informative They weren’t allowed to see much, but what they did see looked a lot like an ar between the tents toward the force ateway "Blood and bloody ashes!" he swore, ducking back "There are thousands of the furiously "Not pinned between them and the Trollocs as we are We have to fall back"

"I just passed the order to Byrne to disengage the troops", Gawyn said "ButEgwene Where are we going to go? Trollocs in front, that arht We’ll be crushed between theer to the line captains Oh no

Egwene grabbed Gawyn and pulled hi within Lelaine cried out, ducking in the other direction

The Sharan woround ripped up underneath the tent, destroying it in a burst of overwhel power Tattered shreds of cloth flew into the air awene fell backward, and Gawyn pulled her toward a toppled cart that had been hit, one wheel shattered, its burden of firewood tuwene to the sheltered place just under the edge of the cart, beside the tuh the wood flickered with fla, but not unbearable

Egwene huddled against the ground, blinking through eyes that burned with sht! Siuan and Byrne had been inside that tent, along with Yukiri and wene and Gawyn hid as fla up the earth The Sharans struck at any sign of movement; several women who ran were instantly immolated

"Be ready to run", Gawyn said, "once the fire stops falling"

The flames did wane, but just as they did, riders in Sharan ar bows at anyone they saw, dropping dozens with arrows to the back After that, the Sharan troops aited tensely, trying to think of how to slip away