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GoleverAlhanra, whose blackened face and burned clothing s strike "Take the wounded to safety, Golever", Galad said, standing He reached up and felt the o"

"And you, Lord Captain Commander?" Golever asked

"I will do what needs to be done", Galad said, cold inside Cold as winter steel "I will bring Light to the Shadoill bring justice to the Forsaken"

Gawyn’s thread of life vanished

Egwene lurched to a stop on the battlefield So severed within her It was as if a knife suddenly tore into her and scooped out the piece of Gawyn inside, leaving only e to her knees No No, it couldn’t be She could feel hi for hiwene howled, opening herself to the One Power and drawing in as much as she could hold She let it out as a wall of flames toward the Sharans ere all around now They had once held the Heights, the Aes Sedai below, but it wasVora’s sa’angreal She would destroy theht! It hurt It hurt so badly

"Mother!" Silviana cried, seizing her arm "You are out of control, Mother! You will kill our own people Please!"

Egwene breathed in gasps Nearby, a group of Whitecloaks stu wounded down the hillside

So close! Oh, Light He was gone!

"Mother?" Silviana said Egwene barely heard She touched her face, and found tears there

She had been bold before She had claih the loss How naive that was She let the fire of saidar die within her With that gone, life went out of her She sluh a gateway, off the battlefield

Tam used his last arrow to save a Whitecloak It wasn’t so, but there he was The wolfish Trolloc stuo down until the young Whitecloak pulled himself from the mud and struck at its knees

His men were now positioned on the catwalks of the palisade, shooting volleys of arrows at the Trollocs that had surged across the riverbed here Their numbers were depleted, but there were still sowell Ta the river on the Shienaran side Downriver the Legion of the Dragon, crossbow banners and heavy cavalry, ste played out here, farther upriver, with archers, foot soldiers and cavalry stopping the Trolloc incursion at the riverbed Until the supplies began to dwindle and Tam was forced to withdraw his men to the relative safety of the palisade

Ta He was out of arrows as well All up and down the catwalk, the Two Rivers ", Abell said softly "The lad said that batch was the last"