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Lini and Tallanvor -- that hat he had heard Maighdin call the felloho had ridden after her; "young" Tallanvor, though there could not have been more than four or five years between thehdin as possible, with Ara to heel Perrin So did a little stick of a felloith a pursed mouth, called Balho seehdin pretended Even so, Perrin thought Balwer saw more than she did He could not say why, precisely, but the few tiht the bony littlethe air Strangely, there was no fear in Balwer, only quickly suppressed ridges of irritation shot through with the quivery shdin’s co well back The third wo felloho kept his eyes down and sometimes nodded silently, soh if ever there was one, but the short wohness about her, too The last man sheltered behind those two, a stout man with a battered straw hat pulled low to hide his face On hie as it did on Balwer

The third part of the ca the trees just around the curve of the hill froed Guards’ though it held far fewer people Here, the horses were picketed well away from the cook fires, so the unbleoat, this time, and hard turnips the fars even with times as hard as they were Close on to three hundred Two Riversover arrows and bows, all scattered in haphazard clumps of five or six friends around a fire Nearly every one of theh there was too much of "Lord Perrin" and "Perrin Goldeneyes" to suit hiave her

Grady and Neald, unsweating in their nightblack coats, did not cheer; standing beside the cook fire they had built a little away from everyone else, theywhat? That was the question he always asked himself about them The Asha’man made hi the Poas natural, if not exactly anything a man could be comfortable around Plainfaced Grady appeared a farmer despite his coat and sword, and Neald a popinjay with his curled et what they were, what they had done at Duht help hi his hand from the axe at his belt, he dismounted

Servants, men and wo from the lines where the horses were picketed, to take their mounts None stood taller than Perrin’s shoulder, countryclad folk, forever bowing and curtsying obsequiously Faile said he just upset them when he tried to make them stop, or at least not to bob around him so often; in truth, that was how they s in an hour or two Others, nearly aswith the horses or around the long rows of highwheeled carts that hauled all their supplies A feere darting in and out of a large redandwhite tent

As usual, that tent er one back in the Mayener part of the camp, plus one for her two maids and another for the pair of thiefcatchers she had insisted on bringing Annoura had a tent of her own, and Gallenne as well, but only he and Faile possessed one here For himself, he would have slept under the sky like the other ht but a blanket There was certainly no fear of rain The Cairhienin servants bedded down beneath the carts He could not ask Faile to do that, though, not when Berelain had a tent If only he could have left Berelain in Cairhien But then he would have had to send Faile into Bethal

A pair of banners on tall, freshcut poles in the middle of a clear space near the tent soured his h it was still too warain, faint in the west The flags unfolded in sloaves, collapsed of their oeight, rippled open again His cridead Manetheren, out in the open again despite his orders Perhaps he had stopped trying to hide, after a fashion, but as now Ghealdan had been part of Manetheren; Alliandre would not be soothed by hearing of that banner! He ed a pleasant face and a smile for the stocky little woman who curtsied deeply and took Stepper away, but it was a near thing Lords were supposed to be obeyed, and if he was supposed to be a lord, well, he seehdin stood studying those rippling flags as her horse was taken off with the rest Surprisingly, Breane had both their bundles, held aardly; she wore a petulant scowl, directed at the other wohdin said suddenly And angrily; there was no anger in her voice, and her face was smooth as ice, but her fury filled Perrin’s nose "They were raised by ainst their lawful ruler Aybara is a Two Rivers name, I think"

"We don’t know hdin," he growled He was going to skin whoever had put them up this time If stories about rebellion had spread this far He faced tooood queen, but we had to fend for ourselves, and we did" Abruptly he kneho she ; he had seen ed to families he knew back hoer Her accent could be Andoran "Things aren’t as bad in Andor as you ht have heard," he told her "Caeon Reborn -- hter Elayne on the Lion Throne"

Far fro "He intends to put her on the throne? No man puts a queen on the Lion Throne! Elayne will clai his head, Perrin wished Faile would stop watching the wo But all she did was tuck her riding gloves behind her belt Before he could think of what to say, Lini darted in, seizing Maighdin’s ar her a shak