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Minutes later Juilin arrived, pushing Mistress Macura ahead of hiate in the back fence Thought I was a thief It seeone so pale at the sight of them that her eyes seemed darker, and about to come out of her head besides She licked her lips and slances at Juilin’s knife as if wondering whether it h, she stared at Elayne, and Nynaeve; Elayne thought it an even chance whether she would burst into tears or swoon

"Put her over there," Nynaeve said, nodding to where Luci still shivered in the corner with her arms wrapped around her knees, "and help Elayne I never heard of forkroot, but walking sees off"

Juilin pointed to the corner with his knife, and Mistress Macura scurried to it and sat herself down beside Luci, still wetting her lips fearfully "I would not have done -- what I did -- only, I had orders YouElayne to her feet, Juilin supported her in walking the few steps available, crisscrossing the other pair She wished it were Thom Juilin’s arm around her waist was much too familiar

"Orders from whom?" Nynaeve barked "Who do you report to in the Tower?"

The seamstress looked sick, but she clamped her mouth shut deter, "I’ll let Juilin have you He’s a Tairen thiefcatcher, and he kno to bring out a confession as quickly as any Whitecloak Questioner Don’t you, Juilin?"

"Sorin so villainous that Elayne al her until she is ready to talk, so oil and salt " His chuckle curdled Elayne’s blood "She will talk" Mistress Macura held herself rigidly against the wall, staring at hio Luci looked at hiht feet tall and complete with horns

"Very well," Nynaeve said after ayou need in the kitchen, Juilin" Elayne shifted a startled look from her to the thiefcatcher and back Surely they did not really asped suddenly Words tripped over one another spilling out of her "I send my reports to Narenwin Barda, at an inn in Tar Valon called The Upriver Run Avi Shendar keeps pigeons for es to or who I get the sickness, and" She trailed off, shuddering and watching Juilin

Elayne knew Narenwin, or at least had seen her in the Tower A thin little woet was there, she was so quiet And kind, too; one day a week, she let children bring their pets to the Tower grounds for her to Heal Hardly the sort of woman to be Black Ajah On the other hand, one of the Black Ajah names they kneas Marillin Gemalphin; she liked cats, and went out of her way to look after strays

"Narenwin Barda," Nynaeve said grimly "I want more names, inside the Tower or out"

"I -- don’t have any more," Mistress Macura said faintly

"We will see about that How long have you been a Darkfriend? How long have you served the Black Ajah?"

An indignant squall erupted frolanced at Mistress Macura and sidled away froht! I do!"

The other woed before, they popped now "The Black --! You mean it really exists? But the Tower has always denied -- Why, I asked Narenwin, the day she chose me for the Yellow’s eyesandears, and it was the nextand crawl out of my bed I am not -- not! -- a Darkfriend! Never! I serve the Yellow Ajah! The Yellow!"

Still hanging on to Juilin’s ared puzzled looks with Nynaeve Any Darkfriend would deny it, of course, but there seee at the accusation was nearly enough to overcome their fear Fro

"If you serve the Yellow," she said slowly, "why did you drug us?"

"It was her," the sea at Elayne "I was sent her description a ht down to that way she holds her chin so down at you Narenwin said she ht use the name Elayne, and even clai called a Darkfriend seeher "Maybe you are a Yellow sister, but she’s no Aes Sedai, just a runaway Accepted Narenwin said I was to report her presence, and that of anyone with her And to delay her, if I could Or even capture her And anyone with her How they expected me to capture an Accepted, I do not know -- I don’t think even Narenwin knows about my forkroot tea! -- but that is what my orders said! They said I should risk exposure even -- here, where it’d be my death! -- if I had to! You just wait until the A woman! On all of you!"

"The Amyrlin!" Elayne exclaimed "What does she have to do with this?"

"It was on her orders By order of the Amyrlin Seat, it said It said the A you You ish you were dead when the Aets hold of you!" Her sharp nod was full of furious satisfaction

"Remember that we are not in anyone’s hands yet," Nynaeve said dryly "You are in ours" Her eyes looked as shocked as Elayne felt, though "Was any reason given?"

The reminder that she was the captive sapped the brief burst of spirit fro the other froives a reason, but not this tied, until so to send you off by cart, dressed in some old clothes" Not even a shred of resistance reeon to tell Narenwin you were here, and what I was doing Therin Lugay owes h forkroot to last all the way to Tar Valon, if Narenwin didn’t send sisters to meet you sooner He thinks you are ill, and the tea is the only thing keeping you alive until an Aes Sedai can Heal you A wo in remedies in Amadicia Cure too many, or too well, somebody whispers Aes Sedai, and the next you know your house is burning down Or worse Therin knows to hold his tong