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Ragan’s topknot bobbed as he nodded "Reht after the first ruon, Nynaeve, she said so about ’this Rand al’Thor’ in Mase block without pause for breath"
"He had someone beheaded for that?" she said incredulously
"No," Uno roveled when she realized he fla wrists froth of whatever village it ere in then Her own flautted faran added, "she thanked Masema for his mercy, the same as Lord Aleshin did" His tone had tooa moral, and intended her to take it in "They had reason, Nynaeve Theirs would not have been the first heads he has put on a stake Yours could have been the latest And ours with it, if we tried to give aid Masema plays no favorites"
She drew breath How could Mase his own followers, apparently But then, there was no reason lords or ladies could be not as great fools as any farreater, in her estis had surely been a lady; no merchant ever wore firedrops Yet surely Ghealdan had laws and courts and judges Where was the queen, or the king? She could not remember which Ghealdan had No one in the Two Rivers had ever had s or queens, yet that hat they were for, the justice fairly done But whatever Masema did here was no concern of hers She hadover a flock of imbeciles who let a madman trample them
Still, curiosityto stopat one another? What does he think will happen if there are nonext, or weaving orshoes, so they can think about Rand al’Thor?" She enunciated the na hion" at the drop of a pin almost aswoainst hi like a Women’s Circle --else, even when it was not a fors men just did not have the sense to see to -- and they surely could and did call wo inappropriate clothes, but that was not the saer into it Women did not meddle in men’s affairs -- well, no more than was necessary -- and men should not meddle in women’s "And I expect thetaverns and the like I never knew a man yet ouldn’t cry hi now and then"
"Maybe he will," Ragan said, "and s, and soYou would be surprised," he added dryly, "at what his folloill accept fro her, she realized, and watching the other folk in the street warily Even to her, the pair of them appeared ready to draords in a heartbeat If they actually thought to carry out Mase
"He isn’t against bloodyso hard at a peddler withthe coins fro pies in their hands "You’re lucky he did not reht have sent you to the Lord Dragon with one Sometimes he picks out three or four hundred un well marries theeongutted dirtgrubbers don’t bloody counder his breath, but she caught enough to narrow her eyes "Some man doesn’t kno bloody lucky he is" That hat he had said He did not even notice her glare He was too busy scanning the street, watching against so in a sack She was half tempted to take off the shawl and throw it away He did not seem to hear her sniff, either Men could be insufferably blind and deaf when they wished to
"At least he didn’t try to steal ave him hers?" She could not have much sense if she had become one of Masema’s followers
"That," Uno said, "was Alliandre, Blessed of the Light, Queen of bloody Ghealdan And a dozen more titles, the way you southlanders like to pile them up"
Nynaeve stubbed her toe on a cobblestone and al off their helping hands "If the queen is fool enough to listen to him, no wonder he can do whatever he wants"
"Not a fool," Uno said sharply, flashing a frown at her before returning to watching the street "A o a wild horse, you bloody well ride it the way it’s bloody going, if you’re sh to pour water out of a bloody boot You think she’s a fool because Maseh to know hejewelry when she comes to him The first time, he went to her -- been the other way round, since -- and he did take the rings right off her flaers She had strands of pearls in her hair, and he broke the strings pulling theathering the bloody things off the floor Alliandre even picked up a few herself"
"That doesn’t sound so wise to me," she said stoutly "It sounds like cowardice" Whose knees were shaking because he looked at her? a voice in her head asked Who eating herself silly? At least she hadlike aisn’t the sa like a mouse "Is she the queen, or isn’t she?"
The two an said quietly, "You don’t understand, Nynaeve Alliandre is the fourth to sit on the Light Blessed Throne since we came to Ghealdan, and that’s barely half a year Johanin wore the crohen Maseht Maserew and his nobles told him he had to put an end to it Johanin died in a hunti