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Letting go of the True Source, she sat back and leaned close to Bair to whisper, "Has Aviendha done so?" She did not kno Aviendha would feel about it, but she saw no reason to embarrass her, even behind her back

Bair had no such compunctions "You mean her stripes?" she said in a normal voice "She cah she would not say to who as she did not lie to a Wise One, but she claimed her honor required that a toh asped, but could not finish

Bair nodded as if it were not very ave her a few extra for troubling ation is not toanyone but a Far Dareis Mai would worry about Maidens, even forave her a flat look that was plain even in the thick stea a Wise One

Egwene had never met an Aiel as not fussy about ji’e’toh, the way she saw it But this! Aiel were all mad as loons

Apparently, Bair had already put the matter out of her mind "There are more Lost Ones in the Threefold Land than I can ever ree That hat the Aiel had always called the Tinkers, the Tuatha’an

"They flee the troubles beyond the Dragonwall" The sneer in Melaine’s voice was clear

"I have heard," Amys said slowly, "that soone to the Lost Ones and asked to be taken in" A long silence followed They kne that the Tuatha’an had the same descent as themselves, that they had broken away before the Aiel crossed the Spine of the World into the Waste, but if anything the knowledge had only deepened their aversion

"He brings change," Melaine whispered harshly into the steam

"I thought you were reconciled to the changes he brings," Egwene said, sy up in her voice It must be very hard to have your whole life stood on end She halfexpected to be told to hold her tongue again, but no one did

"Reconciled," Bair said, as though tasting the word "Better to say we endure the" Amys sounded troubled "Rhuidean The Lost Ones The bleakness, and telling what should not have been told" The Wise Ones -- all the Aiel, for thatof that

"The Maidens cluster about hih they owe more to him than to their own clans," Bair added "For the first time ever, they have allowed a man beneath a Roof of the Maidens" For a , but whatever she knew about the inner workings of Far Dareis Mai she shared with no one but those ere or had been Maidens of the Spear