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"How many have seen that?" he demanded "Tear it up Burn it"

The Aes Sedai let the parchht that two days gone, in a village we passed through There are hundreds of the told everywhere of how the Dragon battled the Dark One in the skies above Falme"

Rand looked at Min She nodded reluctantly, and squeezed his hand She looked frightened, but she did not flinch away I wonder if that’s why Egwene left She was right to leave

"The Pattern weaves itself around you even htly," Moiraine said "You need me now more than ever"

"I don’t need you," he said harshly, "and I don’t want you I will not have anything to do with this" He re called Lews Therin; not only by Ba’alzaon is supposed to Break the World again, to tear everything apart I will not be the Dragon"

"You are what you are," Moiraine said "Already you stir the world The Black Ajah has revealed itself for the first time in two thousand years Arad Doman and Tarabon were on the brink of war, and it will be worse when news of Fal in Cairhien," he protested "You can’t bla was always a ploy in the Great Gah, "and especially as they play it now You were the spark, and Cairhien exploded like an Illuminator’s firework What do you think will happen ord of Falme reaches Arad Do to proclaion, but they have never before had such signs as this There is more Here" She tossed a pouch on his chest

He hesitated ait Within lay shards of what seelazed pottery He had seen their like before "Another seal on the Dark One’s prison," he ht co it

"Two," Moiraine said "Three of the seven are broken now The one I had, and two I found in the High Lord’s dwelling in Falme When all seven are broken, perhaps even before, the patch men put over the hole they drilled into the prison the Creator made will be torn asunder, and the Dark One will once h that hole and touch the world And the only hope of the world is that the Dragon Reborn will be there to face hi back the blankets, but he pushed her gently aside "I need to walk" She helped hiru his wound worse He discovered that his chest rapped round with bandages Min draped one of the blankets about his shoulders like a cloak

For adown at the heronround Tam’s sword My father’s sword Reluctantly,in his life, he let go of the hope that he would discover Ta his heart out But it did not change the way he felt about Tam, and Emond’s Field was the only ho I have one duty left Stopping him

The tomen had to support him, one on either ar, not far fro a book, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, and Perrin, staring into one of the fires The Shienarans wereave Rand a careful look, then a nod

There was soon banner rippled on the wind over the middle of the camp Somewhere they had found a proper staff to replace Perrin’s sapling

Rand de out where anybody who passes by can see it?"

"It is too late to hide, Rand," Moiraine said "It was always too late for you to hide"