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She s her wanly Galad in Sa such wonderful news, Juilin We should have left you in Tanchico, or better, on the dock in Tear" That was hardly fair Better he told her of Galad than that she walked around a corner into the man "Thank you, Juilin At least we know to keep an eye out for hiraciously offered thanks, and he hurried away, clapping his hat on, as if he expected her to hit hion was far cleaner than it had been when Tho paint had all been scraped off -- thethat -- and the cabinets and the tiny table that was fastened to the floor oiled until they shone The small brick stove with its h, and if they began cooking in here, Thoood place to keep their valuables, the purses and the jewelry boxes The washleather pouch holding the seal that she had stuffed in as far as it would go and had not touched since

Elayne, seated on one of the narrow beds, stuffed so under the blankets when Nynaeve climbed inside, but before she could ask what it was, Elayne exclaimed, "Your eye! What happened to you?" They needed to wash her hair in henpepper again; faint hints of gold were showing at the roots of those black tresses It had to be done every few days

"Cerandin hit ," Nynaeve muttered The remembered taste of boiled catfern and powdered ue curl That was not why she had let Elayne go to the lastEgwene It was just that she made s, and it was only fair to give Elayne her chances to go That was it

Carefully she put the box of firesticks into one of the cabinets, next to twosince discarded

She did not knohy she was hiding the truth Elayne had obviously not been outside the wagon, or she would know already She and Juilin were probably the only people in camp who did not kno that Tho detail to Luca

Taking a deep breath, she sat down on the other bed andin the quiet of the other wo

"I asked Cerandin about damane and sul’dam I am certain she knows more than she lets on" She paused for Elayne to voice doubts that she had asked rather than demanded, to say that the Seanchan woman had already told them all she knew, that she had not had much contact with damane or sul’dam But Elayne kept silent, and Nynaeve realized that she was only hoping to postpone the ot quite heated about not knowing any one too far with her She waggled her finger under my nose!" Still Elayne only watched her, those cool blue eyes barely blinking It was all Nynaeve could do not to look away as she went on "She threw ot up and slapped her, and she knocked ht as well tell the rest; Elayne would hear soon enough; better it caue "I wasn’t about to put up with that, certainly We scuffled a little more" Not much of a scuffle on her part, for all that she had refused to quit The bitterest truth was that Cerandin had only stopped flipping her about and tripping her in sneaky ways because it had been likea child Nynaeve had had as , so she could have channeled; she had certainly been angry enough If only no one had been watching, period She wished Cerandin had pounded her with her fists until she bled "Then Latelle gave her a stick You kno that woet back at me" There was certainly no need to say that Cerandin had been holding her head down over a wagon tongue at the time No one had manhandled her like that since she threw a pitcher of water at Neysa Ayellin when she was sixteen "Anyway, Petra broke it up" Just in tie man had taken the pair of theized, and that was that" Petra had ize, true, but he had entle yet ironhard grip on her neck until she did She had hit hiht in the stoht swell, too "Nothing much to it, really I suppose Latelle will try to spread soht to shake I didn’t hit her half hard enough"

She felt better for telling the truth, but Elayne had doubt on her face that e the subject "What is that you’re hiding?" She reached over and pulled the blanket back, revealing the silvery length of the a’daht do you want to look at that? And if you do, why hide it? It is a filthy thing, and I cannot understand how you can touch it, but if you want to, that is entirely up to you"

"Don’t sound so prim," Elayne told her A slow smile broke across her face, a flush of excitement "I think I couldno one ca whoht, why? Make an open cesspit first A midden heap At least there’s some decent use for those"

"I do not mean to actually make an a’dam" Elayne held herself erect, chin tilted in that cool way of hers She sounded offended, and icily calreal, and I have puzzled out hoorks I saw you attend at least one lecture on linking The a’dam links the tomen; that is why the sul’dahtly "It is a strange link, though Different Instead of two orfull control, really I think that is the reason a da the sul’dam doesn’t want her to I don’t really believe there is any need for the leash The collar and bracelet would work as ithout it, and in just the same ways"

"Work as well," Nynaeve said dryly "You’ve studied theone" The worace to blush "What use would you put it to? I cannot say I would take it amiss if you put one around Elaida’s neck, but that doesn’t make it any