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Bryne sat, silent

"I’m not finished with you yet, Gareth Bryne" She whipped the shirt in her hands, then folded it "I shall tell you when I aht, woman," he muttered, almost under his breath "If I’d known you were Aes Sedai before chasing you to Salidarif I’d knohat I was doing"

"What?" she demanded "You wouldn’t have hunted nantly "I’d have just been more careful, and perhaps co boars with a rabbit knife instead of a spear!"

Siuan set the folded shirt on top of the others, then picked up the stack She gave hi look "I will do my best to pretend that you didn’t just compare me to a boar, Bryne Kindly be a little ue Otherwise, you’ll find yourself without a maidservant, and you’ll have to let those ladies in the caave her a be her own grin to herself Well, after that exchange, he would knoas in control of this association

ButLight! Why had she told hi? She’d rarely told anyone about that! As she packed the shirts in his trunk, she glanced at Bryne, as still shaking his head and chuckling

When other oaths no longer have a hold on on Reborn is doing what he is supposed to, perhaps there will be ti to look forward to being done with this quest How remarkable

"You should be bedding down, Siuan," Bryne said

"It’s early yet," she said

"Yes, but it’s sunset Every third day you bed down uncharacteristically early, wearing that odd ring you have hidden between the cushions of your pallet" He turned over a paper on his desk "Please give ards to the Amyrlin"

She turned toward him, slack-jawed He couldn’t know about Tel’aran’rhiod, could he? She caught hi in satisfaction Well, perhaps he didn’t know about Tel’aran’rhiod, but he’d obviously guessed that the ring and her schedule had solanced over the top of his papers at her as she passed, and his eyes had a twinkle to the down on her pallet and disht Then she sheepishly fished out the ring ter’an-greal and put it around her neck, turned her back on hi to will herself to sleep She made certain to rise early every third day so that she’d be tired at night She wished she could put herself to sleep as easily as Egwene did

Insufferableinsufferable et back at hiood payback

She lay for too long a ti faintly to herself at the prospect of an apt revenge She awoke in Tel’aran’rhiod wearing nothing but a scandalous, barely covering slip She yelped, ireen dress Green? Why green? She ood at controlling things in Tel’aran’rbiod while Siuan could barely keep her clothing fro to do with the fact that Siuan had to wear this inferior ter’angreal copy, which didn’t work as well as the original It made her look insubstantial to others who saw her

She was standing in the middle of the Aes Sedai caiven structure would be open one moment, then closed the next The sky was troubled by a violent, yet strangely silent, store in Tel’aran’rhiod She closed her eyes, willing herself to appear in the study of the Mistress of Novices in the White Tower When she opened her eyes, she was there A small, wood-paneled roos

She would have liked to have the original ring, but that was carefully kept by the Sitters She should be thankful for even a s She could have been left without any of the rings The Sitters thought this one had been with Leane when she’d been captured

Was Leane all right? At any moment, the false Amyrlin could opt for execution Siuan knew all too well how spiteful Elaida could be; she still felt a stab of sorrohen she thought of poor Alric Had Elaida felt a singlea Warder in cold blood, before the wo down had been properly deposed?

"A sword, Siuan?" Egwene’s voice suddenly asked "That’s novel"

Siuan looked down, shocked to find herself holding a bloody sword, likely intended for Elaida’s heart She irl looked the part of the Aown, her brown hair in an intricate arrangeas getting very good at the calrown measurably better at that since her capture

"You look well, Mother," Siuan said

"Thank you," Egwene said, with a faint smile She showed more of herself around Siuan than she did the others They both kne heavily Egwene had relied on Siuan’s teaching to get where she was

Though she’d probably have made it there anyway, Siuan adlanced at the tooested this location last tih of this roo hall" She vanished

An odd choice, but very unlikely to conceal unwanted ears Siuan and Egeren’t the only ones who used Tel’aran’rhiod for clandestine s Siuan closed her eyes--she didn’t need to, but it see hall, with its rows of benches and its bare walls When she opened her eyes, she was there, as was Egwene The Amyrlin settled back and a racefully as she sat Siuan didn’t trust herself to do anything so complicated; she simply sat down on one of the benches

"I think wethe table as she ordered her thoughts

"Oh?" Egwene asked, sitting up straighter "Has sos," Siuan said, "and I’m afraid a few of them smell as ripe as last week’s catch" Tell me

"One of the Forsaken was in our camp," Siuan said She hadn’t wanted to think about that too frequently The knowledge wene asked, voice calht," Siuan said "Other than those you already know about Rowene, the creature had been with us for so"