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Just with the wind shut away it felt war the trick Asmodean had shown hirearmer He did not dare tie that weave off; if he feel asleep, it could grow and erous to leave, but he was too boneweary and chilled to round inside had been cleared as he built, bare sandy soil with only a fen leaves he did not recognize and soe to hiround enough to take away the iciness, then took up the other weave again It was all he could do to lay Aviendha down gently rather than drop her

He pushed a hand inside the blankets to feel her cheek, her shoulder Trickles of water ran across her face as her hair melted He was cold, but she was ice She needed every scrap of warmth he could find for her, and he did not dare warm the air more Already the insides of the walls shone with a faint layer of melt However frozen he felt, he hadoff his clothes, he cliarments on the outside; they could help hold in the body heat His sense of touch, enhanced by the Void and saidin, soaked in the feel of her Her skin h Compared to her skin, satin was Don’t think He smoothed damp hair away froer felt so cold, and there was nothing but the blankets or their clothes to use anyway Her eyes were closed; her chest stirred against hiainst his chest If she had not felt like winter itself, she could have been sleeping So peaceful; not angry at all So beautiful Stop thinking It was a sharp co hi that caht, but that soon had thoughts of goldenhaired Elayne drifting across the Void, of kissing her in secluded spots in the Stone Don’t think of kissing, fool! He shifted to Min He had never thought about Min that way Well, a few dreams could not count Min would have slapped his face if he had ever tried to kiss her, or else laughed and called hi of any woman reminded him that he had his arms around a woman who had no clothes on Filled with the Power, he could smell the scent of her, feel every inch of her as clearly as if he were running his hands The Void tre to war to drive thought away, he talked of his hopes for Cairhien, to bring peace and an end to the fa the nations behind him without any more bloodshed But that had its own life, too, its own inevitable path, to Shayol Ghul, where he must face the Dark One and die, if the Prophecies were true It seeh that somehow Aiel did not knoardice; the worst of the of the World killed the weak," he had heard Bad say, "and the Threefold Land killed the cowards"

He began speaking of where they ht thee, to have snow at this tiht Mad Yet he knew that she had fled from him Fled from him How she must hate him, if she had to flee as far as she could rather than just tell him to leave her to her bath in privacy

"I should have knocked" At his own bedroom door? "I know you do not want to be around me You don’t have to be Whatever the Wise Ones want, whatever they say, you are going back to their tents You will not have to coain In fact, if you do, I I’ll send you away" Why hesitate on that? She gave hier, coldness, bitterness when she ake, and asleep "It was a crazy thing to do You could have killed yourself" He was stroking her hair again; he could not seeain, I’ll break your neck Do you have any idea hoill ht?" Miss it? She drove him crazy with it! He was the one asaway, and that’s that, if I have to send you back to Rhuidean The Wise Ones can’t stop me if I speak as Car’a’carn You won’t have to run away fro her hair froze as she stirred She ar one of the blankets about hi away Her eyes opened, clear and deep green, staring at him seriously from not a foot away She did not seem surprised to see him, and she did not pull back

He took his arms from around her, started to slither away, and she seized a handful of his hair in a painful grip If he ave hi "I pro to herself as much as to him, in a low, almost expressionless voice "I ran from you as hard as I could, to shield s do not lie, and I can run no more" Her tone firmed decisively "I will run noto untangle her fingers from his hair, but she clutched another handful on the other side and pulled his ht; the Void shattered, and saidin fled He did not think he could have stopped hi to, and she certainly did not seeht he had of any coherency for a very long time was that he did not think he could have stopped her

Some considerable time later -- two hours, s with the blankets over hi Aviendha exa amount of the warain, either to shut out cold or to try warers through her hair on rising, and she moved completely unashamed at her nakedness Of course, it was a bit late to be asha no clothes on He had been worried about hurting her when dragging her out of the water, but she showed fewer scrapes than he did, and somehow they did not seem to mar her beauty at all

"What is this?" she asked

"Snow" He explained what snoas as best he could, but she only shook her head, partly in wonderrown up in the Waste, frozen water falling fro to the records, the only time it had ever even rained in the Waste wa