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That was better than reet under his skin He had not meant her to learn his plans until the day the Aiel moved She knew exactly how to ry that he said ry Why is it so hard to hold on toshe could do to stop him He did not think there was He had to re abilities occasionally er, she still knew

In a way, letting As his intentions to the Aes Sedai To Moiraine I’m still just a shepherd she can use for the Tower’s ends, but to Asmodean I’e to think he could probably trust one of the Forsaken more than he could Moiraine Not that he could trust either very far Asmodean If his bonds to the Dark One had shielded him from the taint on saidin, there had to be another way to do it Or to cleanse it

The trouble was that before they went over to the Shadow, the Forsaken had been aends, when things the White Tower never dreamed of were commonplace If Asmodean did not knoay, it probably did not exist It has to There has to be soo mad and die

That was plain foolish Prophecy had made a rendezvous for him at Shayol Ghul When, he did not know; but afterward, he would not have to worry about goinghis blankets

The faint sound of softsoled footsteps in the hall snapped hiht I told them! If they can’t! The woman who pushed open the door, her arms full of thick wool blankets, was not anyone he expected

Aviendha paused just inside the rooreen eyes A e with hiave up the spear to becoo Her dark reddish hair still came well short of her shoulders and hardly needed the folded brown scarf to keep it out of her face She seemed a bit aith her brown shawl, a bit iray skirts

He felt a stab of jealousy at the silver necklace she wore, an elaborate string of intricately worked discs, each different Who gave her that? She would not have chosen it herself; she did not seem to like jewelry The only other piece she as a wide ivory bracelet, carved in finely detailed roses He had given her that, and he was not sure she had forgiven him for it yet It was foolish of him to be jealous in any case

"I haven’t seen you in ten days," he said "I thought the Wise Ones would have tied you to my arm once they found out I’d blocked them out ofhe wanted to learn, and then frustrated at how long Rand took to learn it

"I haveto do, Rand al’Thor" She would be one of the few Wise Ones who could channel; that was part of what she was being taught "I am not one of your wetlander women, to stand about so you can look at wene, and Elayne for that headed viehat she called wetlander woeneral "They are not pleased at what you have done" She meant Amys, Bair and Melaine, the three Wise One drea to watch him Aviendha shook her head ruefully "They were especially not pleased that I had let you know they alking your dreams"

He stared at her "You told theured it out myself, and I would have eventually even if you hadn’t let a hint slip out Aviendha, they told me they could speak to people in their dreams It was only a step from that"

"Would you have had h, but her eyes could have started the fire laid on the hearth "I will not dishonor ave you the trail to follow, and I will not deny my shaht on top of his head

He pulled the to think of what to say It was ji’e’toh again The woiven the task of teaching him Aiel customs, but he knew her true job, to spy on hi a Aiel, apparently it did not extend to the Wise Ones They knew he knew, but for so as they illing to let , Aviendha was not a very good spy; she alot in the way of uilty the way Moiraine did For another, she was actually pleasant coot to keep her thorns out At least he kneho it was that Amys and the others had set to watch him; if it was not she, it would be so who Besides, she was never wary around hiwene, even Moiraine soon Reborn, or at least the danger of a man who could channel The clan chiefs and the Wise Ones saw He Who Comes With the Dawn, the s; if they did not fear him, they still sometimes treated him like a red adder they had to live with Whatever Aviendha saw, it never stopped her being scathing whenever she chose, which was most of the time

An odd sort of comfort, but compared to the rest, it was a comfort nonetheless He had missed her He had even picked flowers fro his fingers until he realized he could use the Power -- and sent them to her, half a dozen times; the Maidens had carried the blossoai’shain She had never acknowledged the the blankets They seeh subject "I suppose you can’t have toothem to you when she found out I was here to see you" Her lips twitched in the beginnings of an amused sht not be warht; you didn’t last night"

Rand felt his cheeks coloring She knew Well, she would, wouldn’t she? The bloody Maidensany from her, either "Why did