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"We should be seeing you home, Selene," Rand said "Your people will be worried about you"

"A few days will see if I’ht," she said impatiently "Hurin can find where he left the trail; he said so We can watch over it The Horn of Valere cannot behere The Horn of Valere, Rand Think of it The end forever"

"I don’t want anything to do with legends," he said sharply But if the Darkfriends get by youWhat if Ingtar lost them? Then the Darkfriends have the Horn of Valere forever, and Mat dies "All right, a few days At the worst, ill probably ine they’ve stopped or turned back just because wewent away"

"A wise decision, Rand," Selene said, "and well thought out" She touched his ar her

"Uhwe need to be closer to where they’ll come If they do come Hurin, can you find us a camp before dark, solanced at the Portal Stone and thought about sleeping near it, thought of the way the void had crept up on hiht in the void "Somewhere well away from here"

"Leave it in my hands, Lord Rand" The sniffer scraain without first I see what kind of stone there is nearby"

As Rand rode Red up out of the hollow, he found hi Selene more than he did Hurin She seemed so cool and selfpossessed, no older than he, yet queenly, but when she souldn’t have said I ise Egould have called me a woolhead Irritably, he heeled Red’s flanks

Chapter 18

(Flawene balanced on the heeling deck as the River Queen sped down the wide Erinin under clouddark skies, sails fullbellied, White Fla furiously at the mainmast The wind had risen as soon as the last of them was aboard the ships, back in Medo, and it had not failed or flagged for an instant since, day or night The river had begun to race in flood, as it still did, slapping the ships about while it drove them onward Wind and river had not slowed, and neither had the ships, all clustered together The River Queen led, only right for the vessel that carried the Arimly, feet planted and spread, and sailors padded barefoot at their work, intent on what they did; when they glanced at the sky or the river, they tore their eyes aith lowfro the bank; he had kept up with the ships for a short distance, but now they were leaving hiwene made her way below

In the slared up at her from her narrow bed "They say we’ll reach Tar Valon today The Light help ain even if it is in Tar Valon" The ship lurched ind and current, and Nynaeve sed "I’ll never step on a boat again," she said breathlessly

Egwene shook the river spray out of her cloak and hung it on a peg by the door It was not a big cabin -- there were no big cabins on the ship, it seemed, not even the one the Aer than the rest With its two beds built into the walls, shelves beneath the lay close to hand

Except for keeping her balance, the movements of the ship did not bother her the way they did Nynaeve; she had given up offering Nynaeve food after the third time the Wisdom threw the bowl at her "I’m worried about Rand," she said

"I’m worried about all of them," Nynaeve replied dully After a ht? The way you’ve been staring at nothing since you got up "

Egwene nodded She had never been very good at keeping things from Nynaeve, and she had not tried with the dreams Nynaeve had tried to dose her at first, until she heard one of the Aes Sedai was interested; then she began to believe "It was like the others Different, but the saetting worse He’s done so, that puts him in " She dropped down on her bed and leaned toward the other woman "I just wish I could ?" Nynaeve said softly

Despite herself, Egwene looked around to see if anyone was there to hear They were alone, with the door closed, but still she spoke just as softly "I don’t know Maybe" There was no telling what Aes Sedai could do -- she had seen enough already to make her believe every story of their powers -- and she would not risk eavesdropping I won’t risk Rand If I did right, I’d tell the And it’s Rand! I can’t "I don’t knohat to do"

"Has Anaiya said anything more about these dreams?" Nynaeve seemed to make it a point never to add the honorific Sedai, even when the two of them were alone Most of the Aes Sedai appeared not to care, but the habit had earned a few strange looks, and so to train in the White Tower, after all

"’The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills,’" Egwene quoted Anaiya "’The boy is far away, child, and there’s nothing we can do until we knowyou h! She knows there is so in these dreams I can tell she does I like the woman, Nynaeve; I do But she won’t tellMaybe if I could "

"The wene nodded Somehow, she was sure it was better not to tell Anaiya about hiine why, but she was sure Three times the man whose eyes were fire had been in her dreams each time when she dreaer He alore a mask across his face; sometimes she could see his eyes, and sohed at h I were a puppy he was going to have to push out of his ith his foot It frightensto do with the other dreawene threw up her hands "And sometimes, Nynaeve, you sound just like Anaiya Sedai!" She put a special emphasis on the title, and was pleas