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The cha beside the hearth, a bench along the wall, and Nynaeve crossing back and forth before the door like a spotted hound, there was barely room to move The smooth stone walls made the place feel like a box, and there was only one , open to the night air, behind Cadsuane Light shone from the coals in the hearth and the la roo her banishment, Cadsuane was lucky to have roohed and turned back to Coain He shall hold a blade of light in his hands, and the three shall be one What did itup the book "I think the interpretation of this phrase is wrong"

Again, Beldeine let out a small--al to say, Beldeine?" Cadsuane asked, not looking up fro of Power

"Not in so htly The Green had a face that so traces of her Saldaean heritage Young enough to not yet have the ageless face, she often seeht so a page "Out with it"

Beldeine flushed slightly--one noticed these things, if one spent a lot of time with Aes Sedai They did have emotional reactions, they were just subtle Unless, of course, the Aes Sedai in question was Nynaeve Although she’d grown better at controlling her emotions, shewell, she was still Nynaeve

Beldeine said, "I si in the way she pokes through those tomes, as if she were a scholar"

Min would have taken that as a challenge from most people, but from Beldeine, the words were e "I see Min, as it you were saying toimportant, Cadsuane Sedai"

"I didn’t ask if it was iirl," Cadsuane said briskly "I asked you to repeat yourself Out with it"

Min sighed Nobody could humiliate one more soundly than an Aes Sedai, for they did it without malice Moiraine had explained it to Min once in simple terms: Most Aes Sedai felt it was ireat conflict, so that if a crisis did happen, people would knohere to look

It was very frustrating

"I said," Min repeated, "that a passage is wrong I’ commentary on the Karaethon Cycle Sajius clai one speaks of the unification of three kingdo"

"And why," Cadsuane said, "is it that you think you know more than a respected scholar of the prophecies?"

"Because," Min said, bristling, "the theory doesn’t ht have been a good arguiven away Tear to Darlin But the theory doesn’t hold any longer I think the passage refers to some way he has to use Callandor"

"I see," Cadsuane said, turning yet another page in her own book "That is a very unconventional interpretation" Beldeine s back to her eht"

Min looked up

"It was that very passage that led reat deal of searching I discovered that the sword could only be used properly in a circle of three That is likely the ultie"

"But that would imply that Rand had to use Callandor in a circle soain He’d never done so, as far as she knew

"It would," Cadsuane said

Min felt a sudden thrill A hint, perhaps Soht help him! ExceptCadsuane had already known it So Min hadn’t discovered anything of real import after all

"I should think," Cadsuane said, "that an acknowledgment is due Bad manners are not to be tolerated, after all"

Beldeine looked up from her needlework, face dark Then, unexpectedly, she stood and left the room Her Warder, the youthful Asha’man Soldier Karldin, followed quickly fro the roo Beldeine out into the hallway outside Cadsuane gave a sniff, then turned back to her book

The door closed, and Nynaeve eyed Min before returning to her pacing Min could read a lot in that glance Nynaeve was annoyed that nobody else seemed nervous She was frustrated that they hadn’t found some way to listen in on Rand and Tarn’s conversation And she was obviously terrified for Lan Min understood She felt similarly about Rand

Andas that vision that was suddenly hovering above Nynaeve’s head? She was kneeling over soone a moment later

Min shook her head That hadn’t been a viewing she could interpret, so she let it pass She couldn’t waste her ti to unravel all of those For instance, the black knife that spun around Beldeine’s head recently could

She focused on the book SoRand was to use Callandor as part of a circle, then? The three becoht the Dark One, then it didn’t make sense for him to be in a circle with someone else in control, did it?

"Cadsuane," she said "This is still wrong There’swe haven’t discovered"

"About Callandor}" the woman asked

Min nodded

"I suspect so as well," Cadsuane replied How odd to hear her being frank! "But I haven’t been able to determine what If only that fool boy would revoke et on with more i Merise to jump in shock Nynaeve hopped back fro in the dooras a very angry Tarn al’Thor He glared at Cadsuane "What have you done to him?" he de to the boy, other than to encourage hi, it seems, other ue, Aes Sedai," Tarn snarled "Have you seen hirow darker when he entered And that face-- I’ve seen more emotion in the eyes of a corpse! What has happened to my son?"

"I take it," Cadsuane said, "that the reunion did not go as hoped?"

Taer seemed to suddenly flow out of hione Min had seen Rand take control of hi in Bandar Eban

"He tried to kill entle and faithful a lad as a father could hope for Tonight, he channeled the One Power and turned it againsta panicked terror The words brought backto kill her