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"I feel fine," Mat said gru the other servants The ones eren’t asking if you starved ht I was sick and didn’t want to coer?" Rand asked

Mat shook his head glu I’ve sensed is that so me, most of the ti around Burn me, I nearly jumped out of my skin when Hurin told me he’d located the Darkfriends’ trail Rand, I can’t feel it at all, and I’ve been through this bloody building from rafters to basement"

"That does not mean it isn’t here, Mat I put it in the chest with the Horn, re it I don’t think Fain kno to open it, else he’d not have gone to the trouble of carrying the weight when he fled Fal Dara Even that old isn’t important beside the Horn of Valere When we find the Horn, ill find the dagger You’ll see"

"As long as I don’t have to pretend to be your servant anyo mad and" He let the words die with a twist of his mouth

"Rand is not mad, Mat," Loial said "The Cairhienin would never have let him in here if he were not a lord They are the ones who are mad"

"I’arden"

"This way, Lord Rand"

They went out into the night by a sh; Loial was forced to bend over and hunch his shoulders There was enough light in yellow pools from the s above for Rand to make out brick walks between square flower beds The shadows of stables and other outbuildings bulked in the darkness to either side Occasional fragments of music drifted out, fro theirthe walks until even the diht alone, their boots crunching softly on the brick Bushes that would have been bright with flowers by daylight now ered his sword and did not let his eyes stay on any one spot too long A hundred Trollocs could be hiding around them unseen He knew Hurin would have sreat deal If Barthanes was a Darkfriend, then at least souards had to be, too, and Hurin could not always sht would not be much better than Trollocs

"There, Lord Rand," Hurin whispered, pointing

Ahead, stone walls not her than Loial’s head enclosed a square perhaps fifty paces on a side Rand could not be sure, in the shadows, but it looked as if the gardens stretched on beyond the walls He wondered why Barthanes had built a walled enclosure in the arden No roof showed above the wall Why would they go in there and stay?

Loial bent to put his ier grove, once Rand, the Waygate is within that wall I can feel it"

Rand heard Mat sigh despairingly "We can’t give up, Mat," he said

"I’h brains not to want to travel the Ways again"