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"Don’t you understand?" Elayne broke in, haughtiness all gone in excitement and fervor She leaned forward to put a hand on Nynaeve’s knee, and her eyes shone, she was so delighted with herself "It is a ter’angreal, Nynaeve And I think I can make one" She said each word slowly and deliberately, then laughed and rushed on "If I can real and sa’angreal No one in the Tower has been able to do that in thousands of years!" Straightening, she shivered, and laid fingers across hera craftsman once, a ilded, or elaborately carved -- they were meant for the servants’ hall -- but I could see the pride in his eyes Pride in what he hadwell crafted I would love to feel that, I think Oh, if we only knew a fraction of what the Forsaken do The knowledge of the Age of Legends inside their heads, and they use it to serve the Shadow Think e could do with it Think e couldher hands in her lap, her enthusiaser I could puzzle out how Whitebridge was er than steel And cuendillar, and --"

"Slon," Nynaeve said "Whitebridge is five or six hundredto go channeling at the seal, you can think again Who knohat could happen? It stays in its pouch, in the stove, until we find soerness was very odd Nynaeve would not have e herself -- far from it -- but if she wanted a chair, she paid a carpenter She had never wanted to , aside from poultices and salves When she elve, herher to sew, after it becaht seaht she was a good cook, actually, but the point was that she kneas significant Healing was ie, and leave him to it hat she said

"With you and your a’daot to tell you Juilin saw Galad on the other side of the river"

"Blood and bloody ashes," Elayne muttered, and when Nynaeve raised her eyebrows, she added very fire, Nynaeve What are we going to do?"

"As I see it, we can re us over, wondering e left the e and hope the Prophet doesn’t spark a riot and Galad doesn’t denounce us, or we can try to buy a rowboat and flee downriver Not very good choices And Luca ant his hundred marks Gold" She tried not to scowl, but that still rankled "You promised it to him, and I suppose it would not be honest to sneak aithout paying him" She would have done it in a o

"It certainly would not be," Elayne said, sounding shocked "But we do not have to worry about Galad, at least not as long as we stay close to theani the them"

Nynaeve shook her head The truth was that Elayne would have found some way to delay, if only for one day, had there been any way to leave The wohwalk in front of people other than the rest of the perfor to have to let Tho that bloody dress, though!

"The first boat that coh to take four people," she said "We are hiring it Trade on the river can’t have stopped altogether"

"It would help if we knehere ere going" The other woentle "We could simply head, for Tear, you know We do not have to stay fixed to this just because you"

She trailed off, but Nynaeve knehat she had been going to say Just because she was stubborn Just because she was so furious that she could not reo there if it killed her Well, none of that was true She intended to find these Aes Sedai whothe for safety

"I will remember," she said in a level tone It ended with "bar" Or was it "dar"? "Lar"? "Before you are tired of flaunting yourself highwalking, I will" I will not wear that dress!

Chapter 34

(Drea, which meant that none of the food was si on stools around a cookfire, with crickets chirping in the surrounding woods, and now and again so darkness The soup was served cold and jellied, with chopped green ferris sprinkled on top The Light knehere she had found ferris, or the tiny onions she put in with the peas The beef was sliced nearly thin enough to see through and wrapped around sooatcheese, and there was even a sh Elayne fretted that nothing was exactly the way it should be, as if she thought she could duplicate the cooks’ work in the Royal Palace in Cae for compliments Elayne would always brush away coht Tho so little beef, but Nynaeve noticed that they not only ate every scrap but looked disappointed when the last pea was gone When she cooked, for soons When one of them made supper, it was always stew or else ue blistered

They did not eat alone, of course Luca saw to that, bringing his own stool and placing it right next to her, his red cloak spread to best effect and his long legs stretched out so that his calves shoell, above his turneddown boots He was there alhts he , really, having his eyes on her when a woman as pretty as Elayne was there, but he did have his ht shea word or see her with various flowers, to the blosso the black eye he could notover how beautiful she would be in that red dress, with coestions that they take a stroll by ht, hints so veiled that she was not entirely sure that hat they were u