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"Whitecloaks everywhere," Nynaeve sighed "Galad The Prophet No boats It is as if everything is conspiring to hold us here for Moghedien I aht be around the next corner Tired of being afraid of Moghedien I cannot see that would make it any color I’d have"

"You need to sleep," Elayne, said fir Give it to me" The other woman hesitated, but Elayne merely waited with her hand outstretched until Nynaeve fished the flecked stone ring fro it into her pouch, Elayne went on "Now you lie down here, and I atch Birgitte"

Nynaeve stared at the woman stretched out on the other bed for a moment, then shook her head "I can’t sleep I need to be alone To walk" Getting to her feet as stiffly as if she really had been beaten, she took her dark cloak fro it over her shift At the door she paused "If she wants to kill me," she said bleakly, "I do not know that I could ht barefoot and sadfaced

Elayne hesitated, unsure which wo back where she sat Nothing she said could s better for Nynaeve, but she had faith in the woman’s resilience Time alone to work it all over in her hedien’s door, not hers She had to

Chapter 36

(Elephant)

A New Naitte sleep It did see in a desperate voice, "Wait for , Gaidal Wait for" Words trailed off into slow breath again Was it stronger? The woman still looked deathly ill Better than she had, but pale and drawn

After perhaps an hour, Nynaeve returned, her feet dirty Fresh tears shone on her cheeks "I could not stay away," she said, hanging her cloak back on its peg "You sleep I atch her I have to watch her"

Elayne rose slowly, sitte for a time would help Nynaeve workyet, either" She was exhausted, but not sleepy any longer "I think I will stroll outside myself" Nynaeve only nodded as she took Elayne’s place on the bed, her dusty feet dangling over the side, her eyes fastened to Birgitte

To Elayne’s surprise, Thom and Juilin were not asleep either They had built a son and sat on either side of it, crosslegged on the ground, sstemmed pipes Thom had tucked his shirt in, and Juilin had donned his coat, though no shirt, and turned the cuffs back She took a look around before joining theht of this one fire and the glow of the laon’s s

Neitherwhile she settled her skirts; then Juilin looked at Thoround and held it out to her "I found it where she was lying," the dark man said "As if it had dropped from her hand"

Elayne took the silver arroly Even the fletching feathers appeared to be silver

"Distinctive," Thom said conversationally around his pipe "And added to the braid Every story h I’ve found soht be her under other names, without it And some under other names with"

"I do not care about stories," Juilin put in He sounded no itate either one of the naked out of nothing like that, but What have you gotten us into, you and N Nana?" He was troubled; Juilin did not ue never slipped Tho

Elayne turned the arrow in her hands, pretending to study it "She is a friend," she said finally Until -- unless -- Birgitte released her, her pro us" They looked at her, waiting for her to say ive this to Nynaeve?"

One of those glances passed between thelances, around wo as clearly as spoken words what they thought of her keeping secrets Especially when they all but knew for certain already But she had given her word

"She see at his pipe judiciously, and Thom took his from between his teeth and blew out his whitelost, and when I asked if I could help her, she didn’t snap my head off She cried onsoized for every cross word she has ever said to me, which is very nearly every other word out of her ht to be switched, or maybe that she had been; she was incoherent half the time She said she was a coward, and a stubborn fool I don’t knohat is the matter with her, but she isn’t herself by a mile"

"I kneo into the fire "She woke to find a burglar in her bedchah the heart Only, when she lit a lamp, it was her husband His boat had come back to the docks early She walked around like Nynaeve for half a ed herself"

"I hate to lay this burden on you, child," Thoently, "but if she can be helped, you are the only one of us who can do it I kno to take a et hi to h, and knuckled his hter was that now sometimes he seemed to think she was perhaps twelve "Anyway, the point is that I do not kno to do this And while Juilinto dandle her on his knee, I doubt she’d thank hifish," the thiefcatcher hly as he would have yesterday He was as concerned as Tho to ad the arrow again They were good s from them Not unless it was absolutely necessary, anyway Nynaeve claiood, but there was such a thing as taking it too far It was not right to lead a man into d