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"It’s a central supply station", Faile explained, looking over the stacks of boxes and bundles of arrows "Shadon can’t ateways, but their supplies can They needn’t have carried arrows and replacement weapons as part of the invasion Instead, the supplies are being collected here, then sent to the battlefields when needed"

Indeed, down below, a ribbon of light announced a gateway opening A large train of dirty-looking h it with packs on their backs, followed by dozens of others pulling s", Faile said slowly, "there will be fighting nearby Those carts carry arrows, but no food, as the Trollocs are dragging corpses away to feast on each night"

"So if we could slip through one of those gateways" Mandevwin said

Arrela snorted, as if the conversation were a joke She looked at Faile, and the smile slipped from her lips "You’re serious Both of you"

"We are still a long hike froe blocks our way It ateways than try to work our way into the valley"

"We’d end up behind the enemy lines!"

"We’re already behind their lines", Faile said grie there"

Arrela fell silent

"That will be a problelass "Look at the fellows approaching the caain "Aiel?" she whispered "Light! The Shaido have joined with the forces of the Dark One?"

"Even the Shaido dogs would not do that", Arrela said, then spat to the side

The newcomers did look different They wore their veils up, as if for killing, but the veils were red Either way, sneaking past Aiel would be nearly iroup was so distant had saved them from discovery That, and the fact that no one would expect to find a group like Faile’s here

"Back", Faile said, inching back down the hillside "We need to do so as if he had been tossed into a lake during winter He gasped

"Lie down, you fool", Janina said, putting her hand on his arm The flaxen-haired Wise One looked as exhausted as he felt

He was in someplace soft Too soft A nice bed, clean sheets Outside the aves broke gently against a shore and gulls called He also heardfrom some place nearby

"Where am I?" Perrin asked

"At my palace", Berelain said She stood near the doorway, and he hadn’t noticed her before The First wore her diadeht, and had on a criold and bronze on the ht add", Berelain said, "that this is a somewhat familiar situation for me, Lord Aybara I took precautions this ti"

Precautions? Perrin sniffed the air Uno? He could smell the man Indeed, Berelain nodded to the side, and Perrin turned to find Uno sitting in a chair nearby, his ar

"Uno! What happened to you?" Perrin asked