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"Ten," the wo in defiance "I will not betraybitterly as she realized she had done just that

"Names!" Pevara barked "Give me their names, or I will have your hide here and now!"

Na lips At the corih, Seaine was sure she needed little provocation to stripe Zerah like a novice caught stealing Strangely, she herself did not feel the sa The woman was a rebel who had helped break the White Tohen a sisterto keep the Tohole, and yet Very strange

"You agree, Pevara?" she said when the list concluded The stubborn woree Bernaile to my roo the Blue and the Red, it seein with the other White "You will say only that I wish to speak to her on a privateby word, deed, or omission Then you will stand quietly and let Pevara andrecruited into a worthier cause than your uided Noto help us hunt down the Black Ajah"

Zerah’s head jerked unwilling nods at each injunction, her face pained, but at ht, her wits ed by her experiences not to see that!

"And you will stop spreading these stories," Pevara put in sternly "Froons together Am I understood?"

Zerah’s face donned a mask of sullen stubbornness Zerah’s in weeping again froht," Pevara told her, releasing the shield and saidar together "And cohten your hair!" That last was directed at the back of the wo from the table Zerah had to pull her hands away from her hair to open the door As the door squeaked shut behind her, Pevara snorted "I wouldn’t put it past her to have gone to this Bernaile like a sloven, hoping to warn her that way"

"A valid point," Seaine adht and left at these women? At the very least, ill attract notice"

"The waytherounds" Pevara sounded as if that were an attractive notion "They are rebels, and I intend to hold the thought!"

They went round and round about that Seaine insisted that care in the orders they gave, leaving no loopholes, would be sufficient Pevara pointed out that they were letting ten rebels -- ten! -- walk the Tower’s halls unpunished Seaine said they would face punishrowled that eventually was not soon enough Seaine had always adth of will, but really, soe was all the warning Seaine had to snatch the Oath Rod into her lap, hiding it in folds of her skirt as the door opened wide She and Pevara embraced the Source al a lantern, and stood aside for Talene, as followed by tiny Yukiri, with a second light, and boyishly slim Doesine, tall for a Cairhienin, who closed the door quite firainst it as if to keep anyone fro Ajahs in the Tower They seenore the fact that Seaine and Pevara held saidar Suddenly, to Seaine, the rooination, and irrational, but

"Strange to see the pair of you together," Saerin said Her facethe hilt of that curved knife behind her belt She had held her chair forty years, longer than anyone else in the Hall, and everyone had learned to be careful of her teht say the same of you," Pevara replied dryly Saerin’s temper never upset her "Or did you coet some of her own back?" A sudden flush made the Yellow’s face look even , and told Seaine which Sitter had strayed too near the Red quarters with unfortunate results "I wouldn’t have thought that would bring you together, though Greens at Yellows’ throats, Browns at Grays’ Or did you just bring them down for a quiet duel, Saerin?"

Frantically, Seaine cast around for what reason would have these four this deep into the bedrock of Tar Valon What could tie theether? Their Ajahs -- all of the Ajahs -- truly were at one another’s throats All four had been handed penances by Elaida No Sitter could enjoy Labor, especially when everyone knew exactly why she was scrubbing floors or pots, yet that was hardly a bond What else? None were nobly born Saerin and Yukiri were the daughters of innkeepers, Talene of farmers, while Doesine’s father had been a cutler Saerin had been trained first by the Daughters of Silence, the only one of that lot to reach the shawl Absolutely useless drivel Suddenly, so did strike her, and dried her throat Saerin with her temper often barely in rein Doesine, who had actually run away three tih she had only once ht have earned more punishments than any other novice in the history of the Tower Yukiri, always the last Gray to join her sisters’ consensus when she wanted to go another way, the last to join the Hall’s, for that matter All four were considered rebels, in a way, and Elaida had hu they hadto depose Siuan and raise Elaida? Could they have found about Zerah and the others? And if so, what did they intend to do?

Mentally, Seaine prepared herself to weave saidar, though without much hope that she could escape Pevara th, but she herself eaker than any here save Doesine She prepared herself, and Talene stepped forward and burst all of her logical deductions to flinders

"Yukiri noticed you two sneaking about together, and ant to knohy" Her surprisingly deep voice held heat despite the ice that seemed to coat her face "Did the heads of your Ajahs set you a secret task? In public, the Ajahs’ heads snarl at one another worse than anyone else, but they’ve been sneaking off into corners to talk, it see, the Hall h