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Nynaeve stood there with her jaw hanging, ready to issue orders and none left to give Eood," she htened "The women who aren’t Kin Yes! They have to be -- "

"Calesture "They are already gone, for the most part Mainly those with husbands or families they’re worried about I couldn’t have held those back had I wanted But a good thirty think those birds really are Shadon, and want to stay as close to Aes Sedai as they can get" A sharp sniff said what she thought of that "Now, you just gather yourself Drink some cool water; not too fast Put a little on your face I have to keep an eye on things" Casting her eye over the bustle, everybody running in bounds, Alise shook her head "So over the hill, and et used to our rules For sure, I’ll need to reo" With that, she waded serenely back into the tur

"Well," Elayne said, brushing her skirt, "you did say she was a very capable woman"

"I never said that," Nynaeve snapped "I never said ‘very’ H I’ll wager she doesn’t know that!" She flounced off in a different direction than Alise

Elayne stared after her Her hat? She would have liked to knohere her own hat had gone to -- it was a beautiful thing -- but really! Maybe being in a circle working thatit, had unsettled Nynaeve’s wits teh she could pluck little bits of saidar out of the air around her In any case, she had other et away before the Seanchan descended Fro a hundred daould let herself say of her captivity, er to help collar others She said that what had turned her sto with their sul’da with thewene said some of the women collared in Falme had been that way, too Itthem put that leash on her! And she would as soon let the Forsaken have what she had found as the Seanchan She went running to the cistern, Aviendha at her side breathing almost as hard as she was herself

It seeh The ter’angreal were already stoay on the packhorses The unsearched panniers reht knehat, but those she and Aviendha had eed with coarse sacks of flour and salt, beans and lentils A handful of stablefolkabout with their aritte went trotting off at the worin!

Elayne lifted canvas covers to exa theether in two panniers, not enough to fill the short of the One Power itself could break real, yet even so

Aviendha took a seat crosslegged on the ground, blotting sweat froe, plain linen handkerchief that see dress Even she was beginning to shoeariness "What are youabout, Elayne? You sound like Nynaeve This Alise has only saved us the trouble of packing those things ourselves"

Elayne colored faintly She had notthe, Aviendha" Soer even for people unable to channel, if they did the wrong thing, but the truth was, she did not want anyone handling the to hand these over to some other sister just because she was older and real was too dangerous With this ure out how to real that worked every time; there had been far too many failures and halfsuccesses "They need so the stiff canvas back in place

Order began to appear out of pandeh not as fast as she could have wished Of course, she ad slower than instantaneous could have matched her wishes Unable to keep her eyes off the sky, she sent Careane running back to the top of the hill to watch toward Ebou Dar The stocky Green gru, and even frowned at the Kinswo one of them instead, but Elayne wanted soht of "Shadon" approaching, and Careane stood lowest aht out Ispan between them, firmly shielded and the leather sack back over her head She walked quite easily, and nothing visible said that anything at all had been done to her, except Ispan kept her hands folded at her waist, never soto raise the sack for a peek, and when she was boosted into a saddle, she held out her wrists to be corded to the po told If she was that a from her Elayne just did not want to conteht have been achieved

There were bu toward the her bluepluh it almost turned into one; Alise had found it, and handed it back telling Nynaeve she needed to shield her face from the sun if she wanted to keep that s woman hurry off to deal with one of the numerous small problems, then ostentatiously shoved the hat under a strap of her saddlebags

Fro the real bumps, but Alise was nearly always there first, and where Alise met a bump, the bu their belongings, only to be informed in no uncertain terms that she had meant what she said and if they did not hop to it, they could live in what they stood in They hopped So when they learned the destination was Andor, and were literally chased away Afoot, and told to keep running as long as they could Every horse was needed, but they had to be well away before the Seanchan appeared; at the very least they could be expected to put anyone near the farot into a shouting match with Renaile over the Bowl, and the turtle Talaan had used, which Renaile apparently had tucked behind her sash Hardly had they reached the stage of waving arht there, and in short order the Boas back in Sareitha’s care and the turtle in Merilille’s Follohich, Elayne was treated to the sight of Alise shaking her finger under the astonished nose of the Windfinder to the Mistress of the Ships to the Atha’an Miere, delivering a tonguelashing on the subject of theft that left Renaile spluttering indignantly Nynaeve did a little spluttering, too, stalking away eht she had never se