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"I thank you," Leane said, her voice soft and alrimaced at them "You haven’t even asked me about the eyesandears I can use" She had liked Sheriah years and position had opened water between them "Cared for" indeed! "Is Aeldene here?" Anaiya started to shake her head before stopping herself "I suspected not, or you would knowtheir reports to the Tower" Slow realization dawned on their faces; they had not known Aeldene’s office "I headed the Blue Ajah’s net of eyesandears, before I was raised Aent, and those who servedher reports to you, by routes that keep her ignorant of their final destination" It would take considerably more than a little work, but she had already sketched most of it out in her head, and there was no need for the reports to the Tower, reports containing what you want Elaida to believe" She had alue

They did not like it, of course The woht be unknown to all but a few, but they were every one Aes Sedai They had always been Aes Sedai But that was her only lever hich to pry her way into the circles where decisions were made Otherwise, they would likely stuff her and Leane into a cottage with a servant to look after them, and maybe a rare visit from Aes Sedai anted to examine women who had been stilled, until they died They would die soon, in those circuht that a husband and children could occupy a woh to replace the One Power in her life More than one wo too real for their uses, had found herself being matched with potential husbands Since those who did marry always put as much distance as possible between themselves and the Tower and its memories, the theory remained unproven

"It should not be difficult," Leane said diffidently, "to put myself in touch with those ere my eyesandears before I was Keeper More ients in Tar Valon itself" Startleh Carlinya’s narrowed Leane blinked, shifted uneasily, sht it foolish that we paid more attention to the mood of Ebou Dar or Bandar Eban than to the mood of our own city" They had to see the value of eyesandears in Tar Valon

"Siuan" Leaning forward in her thickarh to emphasize that she had not said Mother That round face lookedmass When Siuan had been a novice, Morvrin rarely seeirls around her, but when she did, she had taken care of ht and walking small for days "Why should we allow you to do as you want? You have been stilled, woer Aes Sedai If ant these agents’ naive them to us" There was a flat certainty to that last; they would give them, one way or another They would, if these woh

Leane shivered visibly, but Siuan’s chair creaked as she stiffened her back "I know that I am not Amyrlin anymore Do you think I don’t knoas stilled? My face is changed, but not what is inside Everything I ever knew is still in ht, use me!" She took a deep breath to calm herself -- Burn me if I let them shove me aside to rot! -- and Myrelle spoke into the pause

"A young wo, she sat on the edge of a stiffbacked armchair that could have stood in front of a farmer’s fireplace, if the far The s at the sae as Beonin’s, were full of sympathy "I am sure that no one wants you to feel useless, Siuan And I ae fully What you knoill be of great use to us"

Siuan did not want her syed hi this up herself, but if they were going to let it lie ing "My ’crackbrained’ idea?"

"Very well, Siuan," Sheria Elaida down is for Logain to reveal to the Tower, to the world if need be, that the Red Ajah set hion so that he could be pulled down" She certainly had their attention now "He was found by Reds in Ghealdan at least a year before he proclaientled, they planted the idea in his head of claion Reborn"

"You are certain of this?" Beonin asked quietly, in a heavy Taraboner accent She sat very still in her tall, canebotto carefully

"He does not knoho Leane and I are He talked with us soht when Min was sleeping and he could not rest He said nothing before because he thinks the entire Toas behind it, but he knows that it was Red sisters who shielded hion Reborn"

"Why?" Morvrin deo out of our way to see aelse Why would they create a false Dragon?"

"Logain did not know," she told the a false Dragon than gentling a poor fool who e Perhaps they have soest they’ve had anything to do with Mazrim Taim or any of the others," Leane added quickly "Elaida will no doubt be able to tell you what you want to know"

Siuan watched them mull it over in silence They never considered the possibility that she was lying An advantage to having been stilled It did not seeht have broken all ties to the Three Oaths Soerly and reluctantly No one wanted to be reain, Siuan had no worry Not as long as Min continued to see whatever it was that she saw He would live long enough to reveal what Siuan wanted him to, once she had talked to hio his ohich he ht well have done had she told hiainst those who had gentled hiainst the Red Ajah, true, but he would have to settle for that A fish in the boat o