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It took Tho the ironbound wooden chests up, gru to haul them up the narrow stairs at the rear of the inn They wereht in the first one between thees; the bulk of theirthe recovered ter’angreal -- but one glance at the room and they shared a look and shut theirto see e can learn in the common rooh space remained to reach the washstand

"And e," Juilin added "Men talk when there’s as ood," Elayne said They did so want to think they had more to do than haul and carry It had been so in Tanchico -- and Mardecin, of course -- and et into any trouble with the Whitecloaks, now" A longsuffering look passed between the faces after jaunts for inforave them, and smiled at Tho," Nynaeve said firht as well have been glowering at her "If you disturb us before then for less than Trollocs, you’ll learn the reason why"

The glance that passed between the two men spoke volumes -- it made Nynaeve’s eyebrows rise sharply -- but once she had reluctantly handed over a few coins, they left agreeing to let the women sleep untroubled

"If I cannot even speak to Thoone, but Nynaeve cut her off

"I a the the buttons down the back of her dress Elayne went to help her, and she said, "I canout for me"

With a sniff, Elayne pulled up her skirt to reach the small pocket she had sewn to the underside If Nynaeve wanted to be peevish, let her; she would not respond even if Nynaeve began ranting again There were two rings in the pocket She left the golden Great Serpent she had been given on being raised to Accepted, and took out the stone ring

All flecks and stripes of red and blue and brown, it was just too large to fit a finger, and flattened and twisted besides Odd as it seee would circle inside and out before coreal, and what it did was allow access to Tel’aran’rhiod, even for sowene and the Aiel dreamwalkers shared All that was needed was to sleep with it next to your skin Unlike the two ter’angreal they had recovered fro For all Elayne knew, even a ht be able to use it

Clad only in her linen shift, Nynaeve threaded the ring onto the leather thong with Lan’s signet and her own Great Serpent, then reknotted and hung it back around her neck before lying down atop one of the beds Carefully tucking the rings in next to her skin, she settled her head on the pillows

"Is there tiet there?" Elayne asked "I can never reason out what hour it is in the Waste"

"There is time unless she comes early, which she won’t The Wise Ones keep her on a very short leash It will do her good, in the long run She was always headstrong" Nynaeve opened her eyes, looking right at her -- at her! -- as if that could stand for her as well

"Re of hi to let the woman start a row "Tell her to tell him that I love him, and only him" There She had it out

Nynaeve rolled her eyes in as really a ling herself into the pillows

As the other woan to slow, Elayne pushed one of the chests against the door and sat on it to wait She always hated waiting It would serve Nynaeve right if she went down to the common roo He was supposed to be her coachht of that before agreeing to be the ainst the door She did hate waiting

Chapter 14

(Dreareal did not startle Nynaeve any of when sleep closed in, the great chamber in Tear called the Heart of the Stone, within the ilded standlaht seemed to come fro into dim shadows in the distance At least it was not hot; it never seee redstone columns ran off in every direction, the vaulted doolden laolden chains The pale floorstones beneath her feet orn; the High Lords of Tear had co world, of course -- only when their law and custo of the World Centered beneath the do sword th into the stone of the floor Just as Rand had left it

She did not go near Callandor Rand claimed to have woven traps around it with saidin, traps that no woman could see She expected they would be nasty -- the best of men could be vicious when they tried to be devious -- nasty and just as prireal He had ainst those in the Tower as much as the Forsaken Aside froht die or worse

That was a fact of Tel’aran’rhiod What was in the waking world was here, too, although the reverse was not always so The World of Drea world, if sometimes in odd ways, and perhaps other worlds as well Verin Sedai had told Egwene that there was a pattern woven of worlds, of the reality here and others, just as the weaving of people’s lives es Tel’aran’rhiod touched the erous h they never knew it unless they were very unlucky Another fact of Tel’aran’rhiod was that what happened to the drea world, too To die in the World of