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"Very well," he said gently "If you cannot, then you cannot You can still pry so, he took her shoulders to turn her toward the door
She flinched away from his touch, but she did turn "Natael will not want to look at hs and sniffs Sobs threatened to break out again any moment, but his tone seemed to have soothed her "I’m red, Hadnan As red as if I had laid naked in the sun for a day And row ba --"
As she reached for the door, her eyes going to the handle, he had the kerchief spun to a cord in an instant and around her neck He tried to ignore her rasping gurgles, the frantic scraping of her feet on the floor Her fingers clawed at his hands, but he stared straight ahead Even keeping his eyes open, he saw Teodora; he always did, when he killed a woman He had loved his sister, but she had discovered what he was, and she would not have kept silent Isendre’s heels drummed violently, but after what seemed an eternity they sloent still, and she becaht for a count of sixty before unwinding it and letting her fall She would have been confessing, next Confessing to being a Darkfriend Pointing a finger at hi in the cabinets by touch, he pulled out butchering knife Disposing of a whole corpse would be difficult, but luckily the dead did not bleed much; the robe would absorb what little there was Maybe he could find the woman who had left the note under his door If she was not pretty enough, she must have friends ere also Darkfriends Natael would not care if it was an Aiel woman who visited him -- Kadere would rather have bedded a viper hierous -- and ainst Aviendha Kneeling, he hummed quietly to hiht hiht breeze stirred across the s on the stone rail of the wide flat bridge in the heart of the town, Rand supposed the breeze was hot, yet it hardly felt so after the Waste Warh to make him unbutton his red coat The river below hie, and was half its nor the water flow north,across the darkly glittering surface That hy he was out here in the night, really; to look at running water for a ti the Aiel encampment that itself surrounded the town The Aiel themselves kept a watch a sparrow could not pierce unseen He could waste an hour being soothed by the flow of a river
It was surely better than another night where he had to order Moiraine to leave so he could study with As hiswhile he ate, as if sheshe knew into his head before they reached the city of Cairhien He could not face her begging to reht For a woman like Moiraine, that behavior was so unnatural that he had wanted to agree simply to stop it Which was very likely why she had done it Much better an hour listening to the quiet liquid ripplings of the river With luck, she would have given up on hiht
The eight or ten paces of clay betater and weeds on both sides below hi the ive rain The town’s two fountains were both dry, and dust lay in a third of the wells not fouled beyond cleaning Try was the word, though He had ed that, then he could try not towindstorm this time
Asmodean would be no help; he did not know ht him, there were two ive a lick and a pro, that they were all but onorances as well as weaknesses It s than they Than so out who Se weather as Asht in the Threefold Land Asmodean had never told him that Better to listen to the water and not think, if he ht
Sulin approached him, the shoufa around her shoulders so it uncovered her short white hair, and leaned on the railing The wiry Maiden was armed for battle, bow and arrows, spears and knife and buckler She had taken coht Two dozen e ten paces away "An odd night," she said "We were ga but sixes"
"I aave him a peculiar look She did not know, of course; he had not spread it about The ripples he gave off as ta’veren spread out in odd, random ways Even the Aiel would not want to be within ten iven way beneath three Stone Dogs today, dropping them into a viper pit, but none of the dozens of bites had found anything but cloth He knew that had been hi chance Tal Nethin, the saddlemaker, had survived Taien to trip on a stone this very noon and break his neck falling on flat, grassy ground Rand was afraid that had been him, too On the other hand, Bael and Jheran had mended the blood feud between Shaarad and Goshien while he ith the a midday meal of dried meat on the move They still did not like each other, and hardly seemed to understand what they had done, but it was done, with pledges and water oaths given, eachthe cup for the other to drink To Aiel, water oaths were stronger than any other; it enerations before Shaarad and Goshien so oats or cattle
He had wondered if those random effects would ever work in his favor; maybe this was as close as it caht be laid at his feet, he did not know; he never asked, and would as soon not hear The Baels and Jherans could only partly make up for the Tal Nethins
"I’ve not seen Enaila or Adelin for days," he said It was as good a change of subject as any That pair in particular had see hiave him was even more peculiar "They will return when they learn to stop playing with dolls