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"He’s as overweening as a pig in a pea field" Egwene shifted herself on the bed; she remembered it as hard, but the thin mattress felt softer than what she slept on in the tent She did not want to talk about Rand "Are you certain this fight will not cause more trouble?" A feud with this Latelle could noteasier

"I do not think so Latelle’s grievance against Nynaeve was that all the unattached er hers to pick and choose from Some women do think that way, I suppose Aludra keeps to herself, and Cerandin wouldn’t have said boo to a goose until I started teaching her to stand up for herself, and Clarine is married to Petra But Nynaeve has made it clear that she’ll box the ears of any ized to Latelle, so I hope that ized?"

The other wowene knew her own ht she would thump Luca when he told her she must -- he doesn’t seem to think her injunction holds to hi about for an hour Muttering about you, actually" She hesitated, giving Egwene a sidelong look "Did you say so? She has been different since then, and soues, really About you, fro that did not have to be said" So it was holding, whatever it was that had happened between theer for the next ti to put up with the woman’s temper anymore, not now that she knew she did not have to "You tell her frohting If she gets into another, I’ll have worse to say to her You tell her that exactly It will be worse" Let Nynaeve chew on that until next tiould just have to carry through on her threat Nynaeve er in the Pohen she could channel, but here, Egas One way or another, she was finished with Nynaeve’s tantrued, too There see of Rand’s attitude about you"

It took Egwene a moment to realize what she meant, helped by that ahed aloud and gave her another hug "Oh, Egwene, you will be Amyrlin Seat one day, when I awene said soberly, and Elayne’s laughter faded

"Elaida cannot destroy the White Tower, Egwene Whatever she does, the Toill remain Perhaps she will not stay Amyrlin Once Nynaeve reer that we find a Tower in exile, with every Ajah but the Red"

"I hope so" Egwene knew she sounded sad She wanted Aes Sedai to support Rand and oppose Elaida, but that meant the White Tower broken for sure, et back," Elayne said "Nynaeve insists that whichever of us does not enter Tel’aran’rhiod remain awake, and with her headache, she needs to drink one of her herb teas and sleep I do not knohy she is so insistent Whoever is watching can do nothing to help, and we both know enough to be perfectly safe here, now" Her green dress flickered to Birgitte’s white coat and voluminous yellow trousers for an instant, then snapped back "She said I wasn’t to tell you this, but she thinks that Moghedien is trying to find us Her and wene did not ask the obvious question Clearly it was soitte had told the to keep that secret? Because she promised to Elayne never broke a promise in her life "You tell her to be careful" Sht one of the Forsaken was after her She would be re that she had defeated the woe than sense "The Forsaken are nothing to take lightly And neither are Seanchan, even if they are supposedly just animal trainers You tell her that"

"I do not suppose you would listen if I told you to be careful, too"

She gave Elayne a startled look "I am always careful You know that"

"Of course" The last thing Egwene saw as the other wowene herself did not go If Nynaeve could not re of Blues was, perhaps she could discover it here It was hardly a new idea: this was not her first trip to the Tower since her lastwith Nynaeve She put on a copy of Enaila’s face, with flamecolored hair to her shoulders, and an Accepted’s dress with its banded hee of Elaida’s ornately furnished study

It was as it had been before, though on every visit fewer of the vinecarved stools stood in that arc in front of the riting table The paintings still hung above the fireplace Egwene strode straight to the table, pushing aside that thronelike chair with its inlaid ivory Flame of Tar Valon, so she could reach the lacquered letterbox Lifting the lid, all fighting hawks and clouds, she began scanning parchments as fast as she could Even so, soed There was no way to tell as inificant beforehand

Most seemed reports of failure Still no word of where the Lord of Bashere had taken his ar the words That name tickled the back of her mind, but with no time to waste she pushed it firmly away and snatched up another sheet No word on Rand’s whereabouts, either, said a cringing report filled with near panic That was good to know, and worth the trip by itself More than a month had passed since the last news from Tanchico by any Ajah’s eyesandears, and others in Tarabon had also gone silent; the writer blamed the anarchy there; rumors that someone had taken Tanchico could not be confirested that Rand hi in the wrong place by a thousand leagues A confused report said that a Red sister in Caease at a public audience, but various Ajahs’ agents in Cae in the Borderlands, possibly one before she reached the reason Pedron Niall calling in Whitecloaks to A that Elayne and Nynaeve had only