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It was true, and yet not entirely true The four of the street, but the people who had decided to be elsewhere were avoiding looking at the their best to ignore anything that had to do with Seanchan -- to gain them a few ht take hours for the Seanchan to learn anything had happened

The hooded womuffled shouts from the sack, but Nynaeve and Min threw their arms around her and wrestled her toward a nearby alley The leash and collar trailed across the cobblestones behind the

"Pick it up," Nynaeve snapped at Elayne "It won’t bite you!"

Elayne took a deep breath, then gathered the silver ht Nynaeve felt so rested on each of the as they had planned

The sul’dam kicked and tried to throw herself free, but between the, down the alley into another, slightly wider passage behind houses, to yet another alley and at last into a rough wooden shed that had apparently once housed two horses, by the stalls Few could afford to keep horses since the Seanchan caone near it The interior had a musty dustiness that spoke of abandonment As soon as they were inside, Elayne dropped the silver leash and wiped her hands on some straw

Nynaeve channeled another trickle, and the bracelet fell to the dirt floor The sul’dam squalled and hurled herself about

"Ready?" Nynaeve asked The other two nodded, and they yanked the sacking off their prisoner

The sul’dam wheezed, blue eyes teary froer as froht her in the first step She was not weak, yet they were three, and when they were done the sul’da in one of the stalls, bound hand and foot with stout cord, with another piece of cord to keep her fro a puffy lip, Min eyed the lightningpaneled dress and soft boots they had laid out "It ht fit you, Nynaeve It won’t fit Elayne orstraw out of her hair

"I can see that You were never a choice anyway, not really They know you too well" Nynaeve hurriedly removed her own clothes She tossed them aside and donned the sul’daled her toes in the boots; they were a little tight The dress was tight, too, across the bosoround, lower than sul’dam wore them, but the fit would have been even worse on any of the others Snatching up the bracelet, she took a deep breath and closed it around her left wrist The endsexcept a bracelet She had been afraid that it would

"Get the dress, Elayne" They had dyed a pair of dresses -- one of hers and one of Elayne’s -- to the gray dae, and hidden them here Elayne did not move except to stare at the open collar and lick her lips "Elayne, you have to wear it Too many of them have seen Min for her to do it I would have worn it, if this dress had fit you instead" She thought she would have gone mad if she had had to wear the collar; that hy she could not hed "I just wish I knew old hair out of the way "Min, helpthe buttons down the back of her dress

Nynaeve"There is one way to find out" With only a moment of hesitation, she bent and snapped it around the neck of the sul’dam She deserves it if anyone does, she told herself fir useful, anyway" The blueeyed wo frolared up at her contemptuously