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Wondering whether he was supposed to laugh, Rand stared at her "Do they teach you how to do that?" he demanded "Make a promise sound a threat, I mean"

"Oh, I see You want rules Most boys do, whatever they say Very well Let me see I cannot abide incivility So you will be properly civil toat the your temper, which I understand is memorable It also takes in your companions in those black coats A pity if I had to spank you for so one of them did Does that suffice? I can make more, if you need theone cold as well as bitter Snoas beginning to pile up in drifts beneath the s "I’o , he strode for the door

"I do hope you haven’t tried to use Callandor," she said complacently behind hied to escape once, but youover his shoulder The woh the cloth stretched on her hoop! The wind gusted, swirling snow around her, and she did not even lift her head "What do you mean, escape?"

"What?" She did not look up "Oh Very few even in the Tower knehat Callandor is before you drew it, but there are surprising things hidden insoht be suckling at your o back into retires, and I could not see how to find you before you stopped dripping at one end or the other"

"What do you hly

Cadsuane looked up then, and with her hair flung about and snow settling on her dress, she looked a queen "I told you I cannot abide incivility If you ask for ain, I expect you to ask politely And I will expect an apology for your behavior today!"

"What do you mean about Callandor?"

"It is flawed," she replied curtly, "lacking the buffer that nifies the taint, inducing wildness of theit, anyway The only safe way for you to use The Sword That Is Not a Sword, the only way to use it without the risk of killing yourself, or trying to do the Light alone knohat insanity, is linked with to not to hunch his shoulders, he strode away from her So it had been not just the wildness of saidin around Ebou Dar that had killed Adley He had

Cadsuane’s voice pursued hiize I y sounds truly sincere"

Rand barely heard her He had hoped to use Callandor again, hoped it would be strong enough Now only one chance remained, and it terrified him He seemed to hear another woe the Creator

Chapter 28

(Snakey Square)

Cri for the explosion Elayne feared Harlon Bridge was a village of h houses that no one had to sleep in a hayloft When Elayne and Birgitte went downstairs to the co, Mistress Dill, the round innkeeper, smiled warmly and offered as much of a curtsy as her size allowed It was not just that Elayne was Aes Sedai Mistress Dill was so pleased that her inn was full, ith the roads snowpacked, that she bobbed at nearly everyone At their entrance, Aviendha hastily gulped the last of her breakfast bread and cheese, brushed a few crureen dress, and snatched up her dark cloak to join the over the horizon, a low dome of pale yellow Only a few clouds marred a beautiful blue sky, and they hite and fluffy, not the sort to carry snow It see

Except that Adeleas was tra a path up the snowy street, and the whitehaired sister was dragging one of the Kin, Garenia Rosoinde, by her arm Garenia was a slimhipped Saldaean who had spent the last twenty years as a h she looked only a few years older than Nynaeve did Norave her a forceful appearance, a wo and not back away Now her dark tilted eyes were large in her face and her wideknot of Kinswoh out of the snohispering a fro Circle were in the front, all grimfaced except for Kirstian, who see an utterly blank expression

Adeleas stopped in front of Elayne and shoved Garenia so hard the woman fell to hands and knees in the snow Where she stayed, still wailing The Kinswo in

"I’ this to you because Nynaeve is busy," the Brown sister told Elayne Shea little time alone with Lan somewhere, but for once, not so much as a hint of a smile crossed her lips "Be quiet, child!" she snapped at Garenia Who proave a satisfied nod "This is not Garenia Rosoinde," she said "I finally recognized her Zarya Alkaese, a novice who ran away just before Vandene and I decided to retire and write our history of the world She admitted it, when I confronted her I’nize her before this; they were novices together for two years The law is clear, Elayne A runaway must be put back in white as soon as possible and kept under strict discipline until she can be returned to the Tower for proper punishain after that!"

Elayne nodded slowly, trying to think of what to say Whether or not Garenia -- Zarya -- thought of running again, she would not be allowed the opportunity She was very strong in the Power; the Toould not let her go if it took the rest of her life to earn the shawl But Elayne was recalling so she had heard this woistered then, but now it did Hoould Zarya face novice white again after living as her oo the Kinswomen had be