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"You thought you had learned sohedien went on "I will teach you a bit hedien’s eyes filling her vision as the woman’s voice filled her ears, her entire head "Live" The instant passed, and sweat beaded on Liandrin’s face as the Chosen smiled at her "Compulsion has many limits, but a command to do what someone wants to do in their inmost depths will hold for a lifetime You will live, however much you think you want to take your life And you will think of it You will lie weepingLiandrin’s tongue vanished, and she barely paused to s "Please, Great Mistress, I swear I did notand silvery black spots danced before her eyes frohedien’s slap

"There are attractions to doing a thing physically," the wo more?"

"Please, Great Mistress --" The second slap sent her hair flying

"More?"

"Please --" A third nearly unhinged her jaw Her cheek burned

"If you cannot be more inventive than that, I will not listen You will listen instead I think what I have planned for you would delight Sehedien’s smile was almost as dark as Te that you could channel again, if only you found so Evon will be glad of a new scullery girl, and I a talks with you about her husband Why, they will enjoy your company so much that I doubt you will see the outside of this house during the years to co years in which to wish that you had served"no" and "please"; she was crying too hard to force the words out

Turning her head to Tehedien said, "Prepare her for them And tell them they are not to kill or ht escape Even futile hope will keep her alive to suffer" She turned away on Ches Liandrin to the wall vanished

Her legs gave way like straw, cru her to the carpet Only the shield rehedien, trying to catch the he brokenly "Please, Great Mistress"

"They are with a , and I had to find theerie should, not be too difficult to locate"

"I will serve faithfully," Liandrin wept Fear turned her lih to catch up They did not even look back at her, scrabbling across the carpet after the I will be the faithful dog!"

"There are erness to negate her failure filling her voice "To Ghealdan, Great Mistress"

"Then I hedien said "You will procure fast horses and follow --" The bedcha," Liandrin sobbed in a heap on the carpet Lifting her head, she blinked tears away to see Te "We could overwhelether could --"

"We three?" Tehed "You could not overwhelm fat Evon" Her eyes narrowed as she studied the shield fastened to Liandrin "You ht as well be stilled"

"Listen Please" Liandrin sed hard, trying to clear her voice, but it was still thick, if burning with urgency, when she went on at frantic speed "We have spoken of the dissension that hedien hides herself so, she ive her to them, think of the places we could have We could be exalted above kings and queens We could be Chosen ourselves!"

For a moment -- one blessed, wonderful moment -- the childfaced woman hesitated Then she shook her head "You have never kno high to lift your eyes ’Who reaches for the sun will be burned’ No, I think that I will not be burned for reaching too high I think that I will do as I a teeth that made her even more vulpine "How surprised he will be when you crawl to kiss his feet"

Liandrin started screaan

Chapter 35

(Serpent and Wheel)

Ripped Away

Yawning, Elayne watched Nynaeve from her bed, her head propped up on one elbow and black hair spilling down her arm It was really quite ridiculous, this insistence that whoever did not go to Tel’aran’rhiod re an interval Nynaeve had experienced in the World of Dreaood two hours, with no book to read, no needlework to do, nothing at all to occupy her except staring at the other wo the a’da out of it that she could She had even tried a slight touch of Healing on the sleeping wo she knew Nynaeve would never have consented to it awake -- she did not think much of Elayne’s abilities in that direction -- or one In truth, that was theElayne had ever done, and it really had exhausted her skill Nothing to do If she had so an a’dam; silver was not the only h The other wo a second a’da to tell Thom and Juilin about this, at least she could have invited Thohtful talks Like a father passing on his knowledge to his daughter She had never realized that the Game of Houses was so deeply embedded in Andor, if thankfully not so deeply as it was in some other lands Only the Borderlands escaped it entirely, according to Thoht to the north, and Trolloc raids a daily fact, they had no ti She and Tho to try snuggling into his lap Her face burned at the ht of that once or twice, and mercifully had not qu