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Vaguely, she heard Elayne say, "Reain"

Sleep took her

She stood outside the wagon, in the night Theclouds cast shadows over the cahtbirds called The lions’ eyes shone as they watched her fropicket line stood es were not on their leashes beneath her and Petra’s wagon, and the space where the s’redit stood in the waking world was bare She had come to understand that only wild creatures had reflections here, but whatever the Seanchan woray anier wild

Abruptly she realized that she earing the dress Blazing red, far too snug around the hips for decency, and a square neck cut so low she thought she ine any woht If they were alone She had been thinking of Lan when she drifted off I asn’t I?

In any case, she was not about to let Birgitte see her in the thing The woman claimed to be a soldier, and the more time Nynaeve spent with her, the more she realized that some of her attitudes and comments were as bad as any man’s Worse A combination of Berelain and a tavern brawler The comments did not come out all the tihts to put her in anything like this dress She changed to good stout Two Rivers wool, dark, with a plain shawl she did not need, her hair decently braided again, and opened her e?" the wo out froolden braid hung over her shoulder, and own that could have been twin to that, once It was only to attract attention so Gaidal could sneak by -- the guards’ eyes bulged like frogs’ -- but it was fun Especially when I wore it dancing with hi, but he was so intent on keeping any other itte laughed fondly "I won fifty gold solids froht at spin, because he stared so much, he never looked at his tiles Men are peculiar It was not as if he had never seen me --"

"That’s asthe shawl firmly around her shoulders

Before she could add her question, Birgitte said, "I have found her," and all thought of the question fled

"Where? Did she see you? Can you take ?" Fear fluttered in Nynaeve’s belly -- a fat lot Valan Luca would say about her courage if he could see her now -- but she was sure it would turn to anger as soon as she saw Moghedien "If you can bring itte raised a hand

"I cannot think she saw me, or I doubt I would be here now" She was all seriousness now; Nynaeve found it much easier to be around her when she showed this side of being a soldier "I can take you close for a o, but she is not alone At least You will see You hedien There are other Forsaken Perhaps you could destroy her, but can you destroy five of the in Nynaeve’s middle spread to her chest And her knees Five She should ask what Birgitte had seen or heard and let it go at that Then she could return to her bed and But Birgitte was looking at her Not questioning her courage, only looking Ready to do this thing if she said "I will be silent And I won’t even think of channeling" Not with five Forsaken together Not that she could have channeled a spark at that"Whenever you are ready"

Birgitte hefted her bow and put a hand on Nynaeve’s arht in her throat They were standing on nothing, infinite blackness all around, no way to tell up from down, and in every direction a fall that would last forever Head spinning, she hedien also stood on darkness, garbed nearly as black as what surrounded her, bent and listening intently And as far below her, four huge, highbacked chairs, each different, sat on an expanse of glistening whitetiled floor floating in the blackness Strangely, Nynaeve could hear what those in the chairs said as well as if she had been a them

" never been a coward," a pluin?" Seeeed in a chair of ivory worked so it appeared made of naked acrobats Four carvedthe backs of kneeling women; two men and tomen held a white silk cushion behind her head, while above more were contorted into shapes Nynaeve did not believe a human body could attain She blushed when she realized that so ht, with a livid scar across his face and a square golden beard, leaned forward angrily His chair was heavy wood, carved with colu lighting at the back’s peak His red coat olden scrollwork rolled across his shoulders and down his arms "No one names me coward," he said harshly "But if we continue as we are, he will coht for ," said a woman’s melodious voice Nynaeve could not see the speaker, hidden behind the towering back of a chair that seee and darkly handso his te back in a throne That was the only possible word for the geold showed here and there, but Nynaeve would not have doubted that it was solid gold beneath all those glittering rubies and eht quite apart fro man said in a deep voice "If need be, one close to him will die, plainly at your order He will come for you And while he is fixed on you alone, the three of us, linked, will take hi has changed," the scarred rowled "Least of all, my trust for you I will be part of the li