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"No reason, I suppose He is awfully handsoid Very nice to look at, especially with his shirt off"

The balls spun furiously "I certainly have no desire to look at Galad, with or without his shirt"

"I shouldn’t tease you," Min said contritely "I’m sorry for that But you do like to look at hirimace at me like that -- and so does nearly every woman in the White Toho isn’t a Red I’ve seen Aes Sedai down at the practice yards when he’s working for on their Warders, they say, but I don’t see so many when Galad isn’t there Even the cooks and maids come out to watch hiwene stared at the, isn’t he? Even when he walks he looks as if he’s dancing" The color in her cheeks deepened "I know I shouldn’t stare at him, but I can’t help myself"

"I can’t either," Min said, "and I can see what he is like"

"But if he is good --?"

"Egwene, Galad is so good he’d make you tear your hair out He’d hurt a person because he had to serve a greater good He wouldn’t even notice as hurt, because he’d be so intent on the other, but if he did, he would expect theht"

"I suppose you know," Egwene said She had seen Min’s ability to look at people and read all sorts of things about the she saw, and she did not always see anything, but there had been enough for Egwene to believe She glanced at Nynaeve -- the other wo to herself -- then reached for saidar again and resuuess I ht as well tell you He didn’t even notice what Else was doing He asked her if she knehether youthe South Garden after supper, since today is a freeday I felt sorry for her"

"Poor Else," Egwene ht becaed open, caught by the wind Egwene gave a yelp and let the balls vanish before she saas only Elayne

The goldenhaired DaughterHeir of Andor pushed the door shut and hung up her cloak on a peg "I just heard," she said "The ru Galldrian is dead That makes it a war of succession"

Min snorted "Civil war War of succession A lot of silly na Do you mind if we don’t talk about it? That’s all we hear War in Cairhien War on Toon in Saldaea, but there’s still war in Tear Most of it is ru she’d heard Artur Haas ht you did not want to talk about it," Egwene said

"I saw Logain," Elayne said "He was sitting on a bench in the Inner Court, crying He ran when he sawsorry for him"

"Better he cries than the rest of us, Elayne," Min said

"I knohat he is," Elayne said calmly "Or rather, what he was He isn’t anyainst the wall Rand Logain always made her think of Rand She had not dreamed about him in months, now, not the kind of dreams she had had on the River Queen Anaiya stillshe dreans, or connections to events, but there was never anything about Rand except dreams that, Anaiya said, meant she missed hier, as if he had ceased to exist, along with her drea the White Tower And I sit thinking about how nicely Galad walks, she thought bitterly Rand has to be all right If he’d been caught and gentled, I’d have heard soh her, as it never failed to do, the thought of Rand being gentled, Rand weeping and wanting to die as Logain did

Elayne sat down beside her on the bed, tucking her feet up under her "If you are wene, you will have no sympathy from me I’ll have Nynaeve dose you with one of those horrible concoctions she’s always talking about" She frowned at Nynaeve, who had taken no notice of her entrance "What is theafter Galad, too!"

"I wouldn’t bother her" Min leaned toward the two of them and lowered her voice "That skinny Accepted Irella told her she was as clumsy as a cow and had half the Talents, and Nynaeve clouted her ear" Elayne winced "Exactly," Min murmured "They had her up to Sheriam’s study before you could blink, and she hasn’t been fit to live with since"

Apparently Min had not dropped her voice enough, for there was a growl froale howled into the roowene’s bed, but Min and the stool toppled, to roll against the wall Immediately the wind died, and Nynaeve stood with a stricken look on her face

Egwene hurried to the door and peeked out The noonday sun was burning off the last reht’s rainstorm The stillda row of doors to novices’ rooe of the freeday to enjoy the up on their sleep No one could have seen She closed the door and took her place beside Elayne again as Nynaeve helped Min to her feet

"I’ht voice "Soive me, not for this" She took a deep breath "If you want to report ished she had not heard that ads Searching for so Nynaeve could believe she had had her attention on, she found herself touching saidar once ain Elayne quickly joined her; Egwene saw the glow forhterHeir even before three tiny balls appeared above her hands They began to pass the little glowing spheres back and forth in increasingly intricate patterns Soirl or the other failed to maintain it as it came to her, then winked back a little