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The door to the outer guardrooure in the doorway

Fain stood "You! Not who I expected" He stretched with a casualness he did not feel Blood raced through his veins; he thought he could leap over the keep if he tried "Surprises for everyone, eh? Well, co old, and I want some sleep sometime"

As a la at soeon’s stone ceiling "It isn’t over yet," he whispered

"The battle’s never over"

Chapter 6

(Horned Skull)

Dark Prophecy

The farmhouse door shook under furious blows from outside; the heavy bar across the door jumped in its brackets Beyond thenext to the door moved the heavymuzzled silhouette of a Trolloc There s everywhere, and h Rand could still ht desperately He backed away fro his sword before him in both hands Even if the door holds, they can break in the s Why aren’t they trying the s?

With a deafening metallic screech, one of the brackets pulled partly away froer’s width out of the wood The bar quivered froain

"We have to stop them!" Rand shouted Only we can’t We can’t stop them He looked around for a way to run, but there was only the one door The room was a box Only one door, and so !"

"It’s too late," Mat said "Don’t you understand?" His grin looked odd on a bloodless pale face, and the hilt of a dagger stood out fro as if it held fire The gem had e anything"

"I’ve finally gotten rid of the Blood streamed down his face like a flood of tears fro to make Rand look at what he held "I’m free, now It’s over"