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"Ba’alzamon is dead," Rand said hoarsely, and the Amyrlin snorted like a stablehand

"If you believe that, you are as much a fool as the Domani Many there believe he is dead, or say they do, but I notice they still won’t risk na free You will face the Dark One It is your destiny"

It is your destiny He had heard that before, in a dream that had maybe not been entirely a dream He wondered what the Amyrlin would say if she knew Ba’alzamon had spoken to him in dreams That’s done with Ba’alzamon is dead I saw hi like a toad, huddling under their eyes He tried to forh his head, sweeping away every effort It is your destiny Babe lying in the snow You are the Dragon Reborn Ba’alzaood na on his own native stubbornness, he forced hiht Face it on your feet You can keep your pride, at least The three Aes Sedai watched with no expression

"What " With an effort he steadied his voice "What are you going to do to ," the Amyrlin said, and he blinked It was not the answer he had expected, the one he had feared "You say you want to accotar, and you may I have not marked you out in any way Some of the sisters may know you are ta’veren, but no more Only we three knoho you truly are Your friend Perrin will be brought to me, as you were, and I will visit your other friend in the infiro as you will, without fear that ill set the Red sisters on you"

Who you truly are Anger flared up in him, hot and corrosive He forced it to stay inside, hidden "Why?"

"The Prophecieswhat you are, because otherwise the world we knoill die, and the Dark One will cover the earth with fire and death Mark me, not all Aes Sedai feel the same There are some here in Fal Dara ould strike you down if they knew a tenth of what you are, and feel noa fish But then, there are hed with you ould do the saon Reborn"

He looked at each of them in turn Your Prophecies are no part of aze so cal to convince him he was the most hated, the ht through fear and coer was all that kept hientle hier cared

A part of Lan’s instructions came back to him Left hand on the hilt, he twisted the sword behind hiht "By your leave, Mother, o, er "I will not be used," he told the silence as he turned and left

The silence stretched on in the roo breath from the Amyrlin "I cannot make myself like e just did," she said "It was necessary, butDid it work, Daughters?"

Moiraine shook her head, just the slightest movement "I do not know But it was necessary, and is"

"Necessary," Verin agreed She touched her forehead, then peered at the da And as stubborn as you said, Moiraine Much stronger than I expected We entle him after all before " Her eyes widened "But we cannot, can we? The Prophecies The Light forgive us for e are loosing on the world"

"The Prophecies," Moiraine said, nodding "Afterwards, ill do as we must As we do now"

"As we must," the Aht help us all"

The silence returned

There was a stor storm, worse than she had ever seen She could listen to the wind, and hear what the weather would be All Wisdoh many could not Nynaeve had feltit was a manifestation of the Power Any woh most were probably as she had been, unaware of what she was doing, getting it only in fits and starts

This ti sun was a golden ball in a clear blue sky, and birds sang in the gardens, but that was not it There would have been nothing to listening to the wind if she could not foretell the weather before the signs were visible There was so not quite the way it usually was The storm felt distant, too far off for her to feel at all Yet it felt as if the sky above should have been pouring down rain, and snow, and hail, all at the sa to shake the stones of the keep And she could feel the good weather, too, lasting for days yet, but that was muted under the other

A bluefinch perched in an arrowslit like ainto the hallway When it saw her, it vanished in a flash of blue and white feathers

She stared at the spot where the bird had been There is a stor But what?

Far down the hall full of wo away, his escort of wo to keep up Nynaeve nodded firmly If there was a storm that was not a stor her skirts, she hurried after hi to Fal Dara tried to speak to her; they knew Rand had come with her and that they were both from the Two Rivers, and they wanted to knohy the Amyrlin had summoned him The Amyrlin Seat! Ice in the pit of her belly, she broke into a run, but before she left the women’s apartments, she had lost him around too o?" she asked Nisura There was no need to say who She heard Rand’s name in the conversation of the other women clustered around the arched doors

"I don’t know, Nynaeve He came out as fast as if he had Heartsbane hi here with a sword at his belt The Dark One should be the least of his worries after that What is the world co to? And him presented to the Amyrlin in her chambers, no less Tell me, Nynaeve, is he really a prince in your land?" The other wo an