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Already the stea to fade; she embraced saidar for a moment and channeled Fire to heat it more Ah in fact they always took sweat baths So I’row up in the Waste I don’t have to freeze to death and wash in cold water if I don’t want to She still felt guilty as she lathered a cloth with a piece of lavenderscented soap bought from Hadnan Kadere The Wise Ones had never asked her to do differently, but it still felt like cheating

Letting go of the True Source hed softly at her own foolishness The wonder of being filled with the Power, the wondrous rush of life and awareness, was its own danger The more you drew on saidar, the more you wanted to draw, and without selfdiscipline you eventually drew more than you could handle and either died or stilled yourself And that was nothing to laugh at

That’s one of your biggest faults, she lectured herself firmly You alant to do ht to wash in cold water; that would teach you selfdiscipline Only there was so much to learn, and it sometimes seemed a lifetime would be too short to learn it Her teachers were always so cautious, whether Wise Ones or Aes Sedai in the Tower; it was hard to hold back when she knew that in so many ways she already outstripped the air hit her, swirling smoke from the fire about the tent, and a wowene juet out, "Shut that!" She hugged herself to stop froet out, but shut it!" All that effort to be waroose bumps from head to toe!

The whiterobed woman shuffled into the tent on her knees and let the tent flap drop She kept her eyes downcast, her hands folded wene had hit her instead of just shouting "If it pleases you," she said softly, "the Wise One A she could stand on top of the fire, Egwene groaned The Light burn Bair and her stubbornness! If not for the whitehaired old Wise One, they could be in rooe of it I could have a roo to bet that Rand did not have to put up with people wandering in on hion al’Thor snaps his fingers, and the Maidens juer they’ve found hiround She was sure that he got a hot bath every night The Maidens probably haul buckets of hot water up to his rooms I’ll bet they even found him a proper copper bathtub

Aestion, but Bair had put her foot down, and they acquiesced like gai’shain Egwene supposed that with Rand bringing so e, Bair wanted to hold on to as much of the old ways as she could, but she wished the wo else to be intractable over

There was no thought of refusing She had proet that she was Aes Sedai -- the easy part, since she was not -- and do exactly as she was told That was the hard part; she had been away froain But Aerous even after you knehat you were about and farworld, they could not trust her to obey in the dream, and they would not take the responsibility So she did chores right along with Aviendha, accepted chastiserace as she couldIn aNot that they’ll want anything but for me to hand them their tea No, it would be Aviendha’s turn to do that tonight

For a s, but finally just bent to slip on her shoes Sturdy shoes, suitable for the Waste; she rather regretted the silk slippers she had worn in Tear "What is your na to be cohed She kept trying to be friends with the gai’shain, but they never responded Servants were one thing she had not had a chance to get used to, though of course gai’shain were not precisely servants "You were a Maiden?"A quick, fierce flash of deep blue eyes told her that her guess was correct, but just as quickly they lowered again "I aai’shain Before and after are not now, and only now exists"

"What is your sept and clan?" Usually there was no need to ask, not even with gai’shain

"I serve the Wise One Melaine of the Jhirad sept, of the Goshien Aiel"

Trying to choose between two cloaks, a stout brooolen and a blue quilted silk she had purchased froons to ood prices -- Egwene paused to frown at the woman That was no proper response She had heard that a forai’shain; when their year and a day was done, they simply refused to put off the robe "When is your ti over her knees "I aai’shain"

"But ill you be able to return to your sept, to your own hold?"

"I as in front of her face "If the answer displeases, punish wene said sharply "And straighten up You aren’t a toad"

The whiterobed woman obeyed i another coht as well never have been

Egwene took a deep breath The woman had made her own acco she could say would change it Anyway, she was supposed to be on her way to the sweat tent, not talking with Cowinde

Reust hadin a shallol, curl partway closed They caade, a fat, leafless, leathery thing that bristled with spines She had co; the Aiel woiven a start when she saw her, then pushed the she had picked theh of the Maiden left in Aviendha that she did not want to adh co a blossom i