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Sighing, he walked on, still not listening to Weira to understand women When he had the tih, though

The clan chiefs had their own gathering, of sept chiefs and representatives fronized soin, who gave hirimace Spearslender Juranai, leader of Aethan Dor, the Red Shields, on this expedition despite a few streaks of white in his pale brown hair, and Roidan, thickshouldered and gray, who led Sha’mad Conde, the Thunder Walkers Those four had so without weapons since leaving the Jangai Pass

"Do you want to go hunting today?" Mangin asked as Rand passed, and Rand looked at hiive sport, but we could try catching sheep in a sack" The wry glance Mangin darted at the Tairens left little doubt what "sheep" he h Weiramon and the others did not see Or affected not to The lordling with the perfuain

"Another tiht he could have been friends with any of the four, but especially Mangin, who had a sense of humor much like Mat’s If he had no ti new friends Little time for old friends, for that hest part of the hill, a heavy fras thrust above the treetops, the wide platforround The Aiel knew nothing about working ood on that scale, but there had been plenty a at the base of the first slanting ladder with Lan, and Egwene Egwene had been getting a good bit of sun; she really could have passed for Aiel except for her dark eyes A short Aiel He scanned her face quickly, but detected nothing except tiredness A her too hard with her training She would not thank hih

"Have you decided?" Rand asked, stopping Weirawene hesitated, but Rand noted that she did not look at Moiraine before nodding "I will do what I can"

Her reluctance bothered him He had not asked Moiraine -- she could not use the One Power as a weapon against the Shaido, not unless they threatened her or he wene had not taken the Three Oaths, and he had been sure she would see the necessity Instead, she had gone whitefaced when he suggested it and had avoided for hireed Whatever ood

Moiraine’s face never changed, though he had no doubt what she thought Those sister icy disapproval without altering a jot

Thrusting the piece of spear through his belt, he put foot to the first rung -- and Moiraine spoke

"Why are you wearing a sword again?"

The last question he would have expected "Why shouldn’t I?" he ood answer, but she had caught hied as he cli about to break open just the same He paid it no mind; it often felt that hen he exerted himself

Rhuarc and the other clan chiefs ca Melaine last of all, but thankfully Weirah Lord kneas to be done; he needed and wanted nohi him climb, her face so close to Aes Sedai that he could not have slid a hair through the difference Moiraine had her head together with Lan’s He hoped Egas not going to change heryounga brassbound wooden tube, three paces long and bigger around than either’s ar An identical tube already sat a few paces ahere it had been almost since the toas completed the day before A third coatless rowled at them

"Easy with it Easy, I said! You nment, and I will knock your brainless heads backward to front Fasten it Tight, Jol Tight! If it falls while the Lord Dragon is looking through it, you both had better jump after it Not just for him You break my work and you ish you had broken your fool skulls"

Jol and the other fellow, Cail, worked on, quickly but not very visibly perturbed They had had years to grow used to Kin Tovere’s way of talking It had been finding a craftslasses -- and his two apprentices -- aiven Rand the idea for this tower

At first none of the three noticed they were not alone The clan chiefs clih to cover the sound of Rand’s boots Rand hih the open trap after Bael; boots or no, the Warder made no more noise than the Aiel Even Lan stood a head taller than the Cairhienin

When they finally did see the new arrivals, the two apprentices gave wideeyed starts as if they had never seen an Aiel before, then bent the to Rand and stayed that way The lensht of the Aiel, but ain in the middle of it

"Told you I would have the second finished today, et respect into his tone without ht, this tower I would never have conceived it, but once you started asking how far you could see with a looking glass Give me time, and I will make you one to see Caeh," he added judiciously "There are lih, Master Tovere" More than Rand had hoped for, certainly He had already had a look through the first looking glass

Jol and Cail were still bent at right angles, heads down "Perhaps you had best take your apprentices below," Rand said "So we don’t get crowded"

There was room for four times as many, but Tovere ier "Co, you hamfisted stableboys We are in the Lor