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With a crash like thunder, a huge flower of red and white bloo away in sparkles

As he goggled at it, the lighted building erupted with noise Shouting

Rand longingly eyed the dark alleyway, only a dozen steps away And the first step would be in full view of the people at the s Pounding feet poured froainst the wall, hoping they looked like just another shadow "Be still and be silent," he whispered "It’s our only hope"

"Sometimes," Selene said quietly, "if you are very still, no one can see you at all" She did not sound the least bit worried

Boots thumped back and forth on the other side of the wall, and voices were raised in anger Especially the one Rand recognized as Aludra

"You great buffoon, Taoat, Tammuz! One day you will kill us all"

"I am not to blame for this, Aludra," thewhere it belonged, and the punks, they were--"

"You will not speak todoes not deserve to speak like a hued in answer to another man’s question "There is no time to prepare another Galldrian, he ht And one early And you, Taht, and tomorrow you will leave with the carts to buy the ht, I will not trust you again even with so much as the manure!"

Footsteps faded back toward the building to the acco under his breath about the unfairness of it all

Rand stopped breathing as the ht the toppled stand Pressed back in the shadows against the wall, he could see Tammuz’s back and shoulder All theRand and the others Still co sticks in the stand, then stalked off toward the building where everyone else had gone

Letting his breath go, Rand took a quick look after the man, then pulled back into the shadows A few people still stood at the s "We can’t expect any reat men make their own luck," Selene said softly

"Will you stop that," he told her wearily He wished the smell of her did not fill his head so; it made it hard to think clearly He could remember the feel of her body when he pushed her down -- softness and fir blend -- and that did not help either