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Verin continued to look up at hih he was trying to remember it "Will you slay me now, Aes Sedai?"

She blinked "What?"

"Will you slay me now? One of the old prophecies says that if ever we fail the Aes Sedai again, they will slay us I know your power is greater than that of the Wise Ones" The Aiel laughed suddenly,your lightnings, Aes Sedai I will dance with the to die, and he was not afraid Perrin realized his mouth was open and closed it with a snap

"What would I not give," Verinup at Urien, "to have you in the White Tower Or just willing to talk Oh, be still, man I won’t har"

Urien see their horses all around, as if he suspected some trick "You are not a Maiden of the Spear," he said slowly "How could I strike at a woman who has not wedded the spear? It is forbidden except to save life, and then I would take wounds to avoid it"

"Why are you here, so far from your own lands?" she asked "Why did you come to us? You could have remained in the rocks, and ould never have known you were there" The Aiel hesitated, and she added, "Tell only what you are willing to say I do not knohat your Wise Ones do, but I’ll not harm you, or try to force you"

"So the Wise Ones say," Urien said dryly, "yet even a clan chiefas they want" He see his words carefully "I search forsomeone A man" His eye ran across Perrin, Mat, the Shienarans, dis thereat signs and portents of his co I saw that you were from Shienar by your escort’s arht have word of great events, the events that ht herald him"

"A man?" Verin’s voice was soft, but her eyes were as sharp as daggers "What are these signs?"

Urien shook his head "It is said ill know them e hear of them, as ill know him e see him, for he will be marked He will come from the west, beyond the Spine of the World, but be of our blood He will go to Rhuidean, and lead us out of the Threefold Land" He took a spear in his right hand Leather and metal creaked as soldiers reached for their swords, and Perrin realized he had taken hold of his axe again, but Verin waved them all to stillness with an irritated look In the dirt Urien scraped a circle with his spearpoint, then drew across it a sinuous line "It is said that under this sign, he will conquer"

Ingtar frowned at the sy coarsely under his breath, and Perrin felt his o dry The ancient sy aith her foot "I cannot tell you where he is, Urien," she said, "and I have heard of no signs or portents to guide you to him"

"Then I will continue my search" It was not a question, yet Urien waited until she nodded before he eyed the Shienarans proudly, challengingly, then turned his back on them He walked away s back

So about "crazy bloody Aiel," and Maserowled that they should have left the Aiel for the ravens