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He’d go a them and demand to be trained They’d take him in, and would treat him poorly, but eventually they’d respect him and let him train with their warriors There were stories about that It was how things happened

After he knew their secrets, he’d go to the Snakes and Foxes and receive answers on how to locate the Shaido who hadthem would be a quest worthy of its own story

I’ll take Noal, he thought He’s been everywhere He can be uide He

Noal was dead

Sweat crawled down the side of Olver’s face as he stared at the rocky path ahead They passed ave theh, one of themud It looked brown and thick, and Olver spotted several bones peeking out

This place was horrible!

He wished Noal were here Noal had gone everywhere, seen everything He’d kno to get theone Olver had only heard the news recently, filtered through things that the Lady Moiraine had shared about what happened at the Tower of Ghenjei

Everyone’s dying, Olver thought, eyes still forward Everyone

Mat had run off to the Seanchan, Talside Queen Elayne One by one, everyone in this group was being eaten by trees, mud or monsters

Why did they all leave Olver alone?

He rubbed at his bracelet Noal had given it to hih fibers, it was of a type warriors wore in a faraway land, so Noal had told him It was the mark of a man who had seen battle and lived

Noaldead Would Mat die, too?

Olver felt hot, tired and very frightened He nudged Bela forward, and fortunately she obeyed, trotting a little faster up the slope so Olver ons, then left for some place called the Blasted Lands, which required the, they’d entered a pass between thecooler as they climbed He didn’tcorpses

Their group had started with fifty soldiers and alon drivers and workers There were also a handful of others like Olver, Setalle and the half-dozen uard

So far, they’d lost fifteen people to hazards of the Blight, including five killed by sos that had attacked the ca that she considered them lucky to have lost only fifteen so far, that it could have been worse