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There were angreal, like the round little real, like Callandor, that increased the amount of the Power that could be safely handled asunaided Both were very rare, and prized by Aes Sedai, though they could only recognize those attuned to wo else, not so rare, but just as highly valued Ter’angreal had been nify it, but to use it in specific ways The Aes Sedai did not know the intended purpose even of real they had in the White Tower; so whether the use they put the like the function they had been ure could link hie replica of itself, the real ever made, even if he were on the other side of the Aryth Ocean from it It had only been finished after the Dark One’s prison was resealed -- How do I know that? -- and hidden before any of the ure could do the sareat statue he hoped was still almost completely buried in Cairhien With that much power Moiraine had said death could not be Healed

Unbidden, unwanted, memory returned of the nexttolast ti beyond the Void

The body of the darkhaired girl, little more than a child, lay spraith eyes wide and fixed on the ceiling, blood blackening the bosoh

The Poas in him Callandor blazed, and he was the Power He channeled, directing flows into the child’s body, searching, trying, fuid and jerky

"Rand, you cannot do this," Moiraine cried "Not this!"

Breathe She had to breathe The girl’s chest rose and fell Heart Had to beat Blood already thick and dark oozed from the wound in her chest Live, burn you! his mind howled I didn’t mean to be too late! Her eyes stared at him, filmed, heedless of all the Power in him Lifeless Tears trickled unheeded down his cheeks

He forced the hly; even encased in the Void, it hurt With this much Power With this much Power, he could not be trusted "You are not the Creator," Moiraine had told hiure, with only half of its power, he had made the mountains move, once With far less, with only Callandor, he had been sure he could turn back the Wheel, make a dead child live Not only the One Poas seductive; the power of it was, too He should destroy them both Instead he rewove the flows, reset the traps

"What are you doing there?" a woain

Tying off the flows hastily -- and the knot with its own deadly surprises -- he pulled the Power into him and turned

Beside Lanfear, in her white and silver, Elayne or Min or Aviendha would look alive up his soul At the sight of her, his stomach clenched until he wanted to vowene and Elayne both fro as Lanfear could touch the Source, he hadher prisoner One flash of balefire, and He could not do it She was one of the Forsaken, but the round stopped hiht I glimpsed One is a woman, isn’t it?" Her srateful "You are beginning to consider ether, the other Chosen will kneel at our feet We can supplant the Great Lord hie the Creator We --"

"You were always arated in his ears "Why do you think I turned away from you? It wasn’t Ilyena, whatever you like to think You were out ofbefore ever I met her Ambition is all there is to you Power is all you ever wanted You disgust ainst her stoer than usual "Graendal said" she began faintly Sing, she began again "Lews Therin? I love you, Lews Therin I have always loved you, and I alill You know that You must!"

Rand’s face was like rock; he hoped it hid his shock He had no idea where his words had come from, but it seemed he could remember her A dim memory, from before I am not Lews Therin Telamon! "I am Rand al’Thor!" he said harshly

"Of course you are" Studying him, she nodded slowly to herself That cool co you things, about the War of Power, and me He lies You did love me Until that yellowhaired trollop Ilyena stole you" For an instant, rage made her face a contorted mask; he did not think she was even aware of it "Did you know that As, now Severed her, and let Myrddraal drag her away screahed aloud "After I caught him, you helped trap him so he had to teach " She sniffed dismissively "He will do that because he knows his lot is cast with you for good Even if he ed to convince the others that he has been a prisoner, they would still tear hi in the pack often suffers that fate Besides, I watch his drea over the Great Lord and putting hih Sometimes he dreams of me" Her smile said those dreams were pleasant for her, but not so for Asainst ainst her? No doubt she was full of the Power right that moment, ready to shield hi She had done it before, with huant and proud, full of your own strength"

Once she had said that she liked hiant "Why are you here?"

"Rahvin sent the Darkhounds after you tonight," she said cal her hands at her waist "I would have come sooner, to help you, but I cannot let the others know I a