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"What am I supposed to do with those?" Rand asked, and Adelin replied without hesitation

"Whatever you wish, Car’a’carn We stand ready, and will not resist"

Rand shook his head Bloody Aiel and their bloody ji’e’toh "You take those and go back to guarding an to obey, as reluctantly as they had approached him in the first place "And one of you tell Aviendha that I will be co to spend the entire night outside wondering whether it was safe He stalked away, the stony ground hard under his feet

Asmodean’s tent was not very far from his There had not been a sound out of it He whipped open the flap and ducked in As his lip He flinched when Rand appeared, and gave him no chance to speak

"You did not expect hkar, but you could deal with those; you did I have never liked Draghkar; we should never have made them They have fewer brains than a Trolloc Give them an order, and they still sometimes kill whatever is closest If I had co What if someone noticed? What if they realized it could not be you channeling? I --"

"Well for you that you didn’t," Rand cut hied in the dark "If I had felt you full of saidin out there tonight, I h was shaky "I thought of that, too"

"It was Saht The Trollocs and Darkfriends, anyway"

"It is not like Sammael to throw men away," Asmodean said slowly "But he’ll see ten thousand dead, or ten tiains him what he thinks is worth the cost Maybe one of the others wants you to think it was him Even if the Aiel took prisoners Trollocs do not think of , and Darkfriends believe what they are told"

"It was hi hiht drifted across the surface of the Void I said " but what he had said The words had just co silence, Asmodean said quietly, "I never knew that"

"What I want to know is, why?" Rand chose his words carefully, hoping that they were all his He remembered Sammael’s face, a man -- Not mine Not my memory -- a compact man with a short yellow beard Ase was not made from that description Sammael had alanted to be taller, and resented it that the Power could not make him so Asmodean had never told him that "From what you’ve told me, he is not likely to want to face me unless he is sure of victory, and maybe not then You said he’d likely leave me to the Dark One, if he could So why is he sure he’ll win now, if I deci