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I’ll certainly take pleasure in telling Sheriaht dryly Aes Sedai don’t use the Power as a weapon, do they?

She certainly had She had at least knocked the to strike, and she had seen one of the soldiers, or his body rather, burn from the ball of fire she made and hurled at theers at all in some time now

Sweat beaded on her forehead, and it was not all froone, and she could not bring it back In that first fury of knowing that Liandrin had betrayed them, saidar had been there al her It had see as they had chased her, rage at being hunted like an anier she had gone without seeing an eneun to worry that theyup on her somehow, and the wene, and Elayne, and Min Now she was forced to admit that what she felt er she needed

Soht, and she fumbled for saidar, but all the exercises Sheria in her ined streaood She could feel it, sense the Source, but she could not touch it

Elayne stepped froed with relief The DaughterHeir’s dress was dirty and torn, her golden hair was a tangle of snarls and leaves, and her searching eyes were as wide as those of a frightened fawn, but she held her shortbladed dagger in a steady hand Nynaeve picked up her reins and rode into the open

Elayne gave a convulsive jump, then her hand went to her throat and she drew a deep breath Nynaeve dis found each other

"For a ht you were Do you knohere they are? There were two ht alloped off They could see me, Nynaeve, and they just left"

"I heard it, too, and I haven’t seen any of thewene, or Min?"

Elayne shook her head, sluround "Not since That man hit Min, knocked her down And one of those wowene’s neck I saw that ot away, Nynaeve I should have done soweneI just ran, Nynaeve I realized I was free, and I ran Mother had better hter as soon as she can I aoose," Nynaeve said sharply "Re ibe did not even produce a ht twenty or thirty armed men, not to mention the Aes Sedai? If you had waited, theby far is that you would be a prisoner, too If they didn’t just kill you They seewene and ht not have cared whether you rewene and me? Why us in particular? Why did Liandrin do this? Why? She had no more answers now than she had had the first ti to help theood you’d be then, to yourself or theet on your feet and brush off your dress" Nynaeve rus for a hairbrush "And fix your hair"

Elayne got up slowly, and took the brush with a san to run the brush through her hair, wincing as tangles pulled "But how are we going to help the as a full sister when you are angry, but they have women who can channel, too I cannot think they’re Aes Sedai, but they ht as well be We do not even knohich direction they took them"

"West," Nynaeve said "That creature Suroth mentioned Falo We will go to Falme I hope Liandrin is there I will make her curse the day her mother laid eyes on her father But first I think we had better find some clothes of the country I’ve seen Taraboner and Do like e have on We would stand out in Falh Mother would surely have a fit if she ever found out I’d worn one, and Lini would never let e, can we afford new dresses? I have no idea how old marks and perhaps twice that in silver That will keep us two or three weeks, but I don’t knoe will do after that"

"A few , "has not stopped you thinking like the heir to a throne I don’t have a tenth what you do, but altogether it will keep us two or three er, if we are careful I have no intention of buying us dresses, and they won’t be new in any case My gray silk dress will do us soold thread If I can’t find a woes for that, I will give you this ring, and I will be the novice" She swung up into her saddle and reached a hand down to pull Elayne up behind her

"What are we going to do e reach Falme?" Elayne asked as she settled on the mare’s rump

"I won’t know that until we are there" Nynaeve paused, letting the horse stand "Are you sure you want to do this? It will be dangerous"

"More dangerous than it is for Egwene and Min? They would come after us if our circu to stay here all day?" Elayne dug her heels in, and the mare started off

Nynaeve turned the horse until the sun, still short of its noonday crest, shone at their backs "We are going to have to be cautious The Aes Sedai we know can recognize a woth of her These Aes Sedaifor us, and we had better assu f