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The men -- creatures -- vanished, and her feet thudded to the floor For a moment all she could do was shudder and weep Hastily she repaired the daernails re could be mended easily in Tel’aran’rhiod, but whatever happened to a human Her knees shook so badly that it was all she could do to stay upright
She halfexpected Egwene to coladly But the other wohth I made these, and unmade them, but even I have trouble with those I just find And I did not try to hold them, Nynaeve If you kne to unrily, refusing to scrub the tears from her cheeks "I could have dreamed myself away To Sheriam’s study, or back to my bed" She did not sound sulky Of course she did not
"If you had not been too scared spitless to think of it," Egwene said dryly "Oh, take that sullen look off your face It looks silly on you"
She glared at the other wo into arguwene merely arched an eyebrow at her "None of this looks like Siuan Sanche," Nynaeve said to change the subject What had gotten into the girl?
"It doesn’t," Egwene agreed, looking around the room "I see why I had to come by way of my old room in the novices’ quarters But I suppose people do decide to try so new sometimes"
"That is what I mean," Nynaeve told her patiently She had not sounded sulky, and she had not looked sullen It was ridiculous "The woman who furnished this room doesn’t look at the world the same as the wos I don’t knohat the triple thing is, but you can recognize the other as well as I" They had both seen it happen
"Bonwhin, I should say," Egwene said thoughtfully "You never did listen to the lectures as you should It is a triptych"
"Whatever it is, it’s the other that’s ih The rest was a pack of useless nonsense often as not "It see it wants to be reainst Rand for sowene, this could be far worse than just her wanting Elayne back in the Tower"
"Perhaps," Egwene said judiciously "Maybe the papers will tell us so You search in here When I finish with Leane’s desk, I will help you"
Nynaeve stared indignantly at Egwene’s back as she left You search in here, indeed! Egwene had no right to give her orders She ought to ht after her and tell her so in no uncertain ter here like a luood idea, and she ht as well do so in here as out there In fact, the A i to herself about what she would do to set Egwene straight, she stalked to the thickly carved table, kicking her skirts with every step
There was nothing on the table except three ornately lacquered boxes, arrayed with painful precision Re the sorts of traps that could be set by so stick to push open the hinged lid of the first, a gold and green thing decorated ading herons It was a writing case, with pens and ink and sand The largest box, with red roses twining through golden scrolls, held twenty or s of ivory and turquoise, aniray velvet
As she pushed up the lid of the third box -- golden hawks fighting a white clouds in a blue sky -- she noticed that the first tere closed again Things like that happened here; everything see world, and on top of that, if you took your eyes away for a moment, details could be different when you looked back
The third box did hold docuerly lifted out the top sheet of parchned "Joline Aes Sedai," it was a humble request to serve a set of penances thatthere that mattered, except to Joline A scrawl at the bottoular script As she reached to put the parch, she opened it again The papers inside looked different Holding the lid, she lifted them out one by one and read quickly Or tried to read Sometimes the letters and reports vanished while she was still picking thee If they had a salutation, it was sined by Aes Sedai, others by women with other titles, nobles, or no honorific at all None of it seemed to bear on the matter at hand The Marshal General of Saldaea and his ar to cooperate; she ed to finish that report, but it assumed that the reader knehy the man was not in Saldaea and what the queen was supposed to be cooperating about No report had come from any Ajah’s eyesandears in Tanchico for three weeks; but she got no further than that one fact Some trouble between Illian on one side and Murandy on the other was abating, and Pedron Niall was claiot she could see the writer’s teeth gnashing The letters were all no doubt very ih and those that faded away under her eyes, but of no use to her at all She had just begun what seemed to be a report on a suspected -- that was the word used -- gathering of Blue sisters, when a wretched cry of "Oh, Light, no!" ca for the door, she made a stout wooden club appear in her hands, its head bristling with spikes But when she dashed in expecting to find Egwene defending herself, the wo at nothing With a look of horror on her face, to be sure, but still unharave a start at the sight of her, then gathered herself visibly "Nynaeve, Elaida is Aoose," Nynaeve scoffed Yet the other roos You ned ’Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan, Watcher of the Seals, Flame of Tar Valon, The Amyrlin Seat,’ and sealed with the