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"Of course, my Lord Rand" Sandair made a bow "Butthe inn?"

"I will let you knoe find one" Rand turned Red, then paused Selene’s note crackled in his pocket "I need to find a young woe, and beautiful I don’t know her House"

Sandair and Tavolin exchanged looks, then Sandair said, "I will make inquiries,when you come tomorrow"

Rand nodded and led Loial and Hurin into the city They attracted little notice, though there were few riders Even Loial attracted al their own business

"Will they take it the wrong way," Rand asked Hurin, " after Selene?"

"Who can say with Cairhienin, Lord Rand? They see has to do with Daes Dae’ at hiain, and stop pretending to be what he was not

Hurin knew several inns in the city, though his tiate The sniffer led then bearing a crowned man with his foot on another man’s chest and his sword at the man’s throat The fellow on his back had red hair

A hostler ca quick looks at Rand and at Loial when he thought he was not observed Rand told hi fancies; not everyone in the city could be playing this Game of theirs And if they were, he was no part of it

The common room was neat, with the tables laid out as strictly as the city, and only a few people at thelanced up at the newcomers, then back to their wine i, though, and listening A sh the day arle stripe of green across his dark gray coat He gave a start at his first sight of them, and Rand was not surprised Loial, with the chest in his arms under its striped blanket, had to duck his head to h the door, Hurin was burdened with all their saddlebags and bundles, and his own red coat was a sharp contrast to the somber colors the people at the tables wore

The innkeeper took in Rand’s coat and his sword, and his oily sive me, ive me My brain is not what it was You wish rooms, my Lord?" He added another, lesser bow for Loial "I aht sourly He wanted to be gone froht find them And Selene had said she would wait for him in Cairhien

It took a little ti with too many smiles and bows that it was necessary to ain, but between the innkeeper’s scandalized looks and Hurin’s insistence -- "We have to show these Cairhienin we knohat’s right as well as they do, Lord Rand" -- they ended with two, one for hi door

The rooms were much the saier, while his had only one bed, and that al as the other tithHis tallbacked, padded chair and the washstand were square and ainst his as carved in a heavy, rigid style that h to fall over on hi his bed looked out on the street, two floors below