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"What do you see around me?" Fortuona said "Speak it, Dooe you true or false!"

That sounded dangerous "I see a bloody death lily, as I told Mat", Min said "And three ships, sailing An insect in the darkness Red lights, spread across a field that should be lush and ripe A man with the teeth of a wolf" Fortuona drew in a sharp breath She looked up at Mat "This is a great gift you have brought h for credit beyond Such a grand gift"

"WellI"

"I don’t belong to anyone", Min said "Except"This woman is my new Soe’feia Doomseer, Truthspeaker! Holy woman, she who may not be touched We have been blessed Let it be known The Crystal Throne has not had a true reader of the omens for over three centuries!"

Min sat, stunned, until Mat pulled her to her feet "Is that a good thing?" she whispered to him

"I’ll be bloody in the face if I know", Mat said back "But you re away froet about that now"

CHAPTER 28

Too Many Men

"Lord Agelmar sent us directly", the Arafellin said to Lan Thetoward the front line, where his coht for their lives

Thunder shook the battlefield here in Shienar The scent of burnt flesh was pungent in the air, alongside burnt hair The Dreadlords didn’t care if their attacks killed Trollocs, so long as they hit men as well

"You’re certain?" Lan asked from horseback

"Of course, Dai Shan", the , the bells painted red for so to do with the Arafellin Houses and their approach to the Last Battle "If I lie, let me be whipped a hundred times and left in the sun I was surprised by the order, as I thought er have the proper passwords, but the man I sent to the command tent returned to confiro back to his lanced at Andere and Prince Kaisel, both of who confused They had listened to Lan interrogate the Kandori banner leader just before this, and that elmar had sent the the other was going to the saht as he turned and rode toward the back lines