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"It was not the same" Nynaeve tried to take the heat out of her voice "It was my fault that you were there My fault that you are here If you" She stopped to s again "If you miss when you shoot at me today, I want you to know that I will understand"

"I do not itte said dryly, "and where I ais fro them on the small table Halffinished arrows, scraped shafts, steel arrow points, stone glue pot, fine cord, gray goose feathers for fletchings She had said she would make her o, too, as soon as she could Luca’s she called "a knotriddled branch broken frorained tree by a blind idiot in the ht"

"I liked you, Nynaeve," she said as she laid everything out "Thorns, warts and all I no longer do, as you are now"

"You have no reason to like me, now," Nynaeve said ht over her without looking up

"and I will not allow you toresponsibility for them I have had feohosts"

"I wish you could be host? Soe, no doubt "I would never try to itte paid her no mind, except to raise her voice Her attention seeain, whether you return the liking or not, but I cannot until you are yourself again I could live with you awretch if that hat you were I take people as they are, not as I would like them to be, or else I leave them But that is not what you are, and I will not accept your reasons for playing at it So Clarine told me of your encounter with Cerandin Now I knohat to do the next tith of ashwood vigorously "I am sure Latelle will be happy to provide the switch"

Nynaeve forced her jaws to unclench, forced her tone as sht to do whatever you wish to me" Her fists in her skirts quivered ? Just at the edges?" Birgitte grinned at her, at once a before it bursts into fla to wear out any nurin faded into seriousness "I will ht of this, or I will drive you away There is no other course I cannot -- will not -- leave Elayne That bond honors me, and I will honor it, and her And I will not allow you to think that you e to you Now go away I must finish these arrows if I am to have even a few shafts that will fly true I do not mean to kill you, and I would not have it happen by accident" Unstopping the glue pot, she bent over the table "Do not forget to curtsy like a good girl on your way out"

Nynaeveher fist on her thigh in a fury How dare the woman? Did she think that she could just? Did she think that Nynaeve would put up with? I thought she could do anything she wanted to you, a small voice whispered in her head I said she could kill er everybody would be threatening her with that bloody Seanchan wohcoated horse handlers for guards, near the tall sprawling canvas fence erected to contain Luca’s show Froray stone walls of the city were clearly visible, with squat towers at the gates, and a few of the taller buildings showing roofs of thatch or tile Outside the walls, villages of huts and rude shanties sprouted like mushrooms in every direction, full of the Prophet’s followers, and they had stripped every tree foror for firewood

The show’s entrance for patrons was on the other side, but two of the horse handlers with stout cudgels stood on this side to discourage any who did not want to pay fro as the perfor as hard as she could and rins made her realize that the shaas still looped over her elbows Her stare wiped their faces blank Only then did she cover herself properly, and slowly; she was not about to have these louts think they could make her yelp and leap The skinny one, with a nose that took up half of his face, held the canvas flap aside, and she ducked through into pande clusters offrom one attraction to the next All but the s’redit perfores Luca had had built Cerandin’s boarhorses had the largest crowd, the huge gray ani snouts curved up sinuously, while Clarine’s dogs had the ss and flips over each others’ backs A good many people paused to stare at the lions and the hairy boarlike capars in their cages, the strangely horned deer froht birds fro, brownfurred creatures with big eyes and round ears that sat placidly eating leaves froripped in their forepaws Luca’s tale on where they came from varied -- she supposed he did not know -- and he had not been able to e snake fro as a h si there, apparently asleep, but she was pleased to see that Latelle’s bears, at the e red wooden balls that they rolled in circles with their feet, attracted few s Bears these people could see in their own forests, even if these did have white faces

Latelle sparkled in the afternoon sunlight in her black spangles Cerandin glittered alh neither had quite as many sequins sewn on as Latelle, but every last one of the dresses had a collar right up under the chin Of course, Petra and the Chavanas were perforht blue breeches, but that was to show off theirone atop the other’s shoulders, four high Not far froe iron ball at each end -- twoup to hi it in his thick hands, even spinning the bar around his