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Rand shook his head "Done is done I can hear details later If Han doesn’t need to keep theer, then I need him Sulin, send a runner Han --"

"It is done, Rand," the Warder said insistently "All of it Only a few Shaido remain south of the city Thousands have been taken prisoner, andthe Gaelin Word would have been sent to you an hour ago, had anyone knohere you were You’ve keptCome and let Moiraine tell you"

"Done? We’ve won?"

"You have won Coed, the patient lines awaiting bandages and those leaving with the Moiraine was stillwearily here and there to Heal Only a few of the wounded would be here, of course They would have been co as and when they could If they could None of the dead would be here Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won He seeo Perhaps he had read it

No There were tooin his responsibility for him to worry over the dead, But how et Ilyena, not if all the world burns!

Frowning, he raised a hand to his head Those thoughts had seemed to come on top of one another, from different places He was so tired he could hardly think But he needed to, needed thoughts that did not slide by almost beyond his reach He released the Source and the Void, and convulsed as saidin almost drove him under in that moment of retreat He barely had tione, exhaustion and pain crashed down on him

He are of faces turned up to hi to grab him, cushion his fall

"Moiraine!" Lan shouted, voice hollow in Rand’s ears "He is bleeding badly!"

Sulin had his head cradled in her arently "Hold on"

As, but his face was bleak, and Rand felt a trickle of saidin flowing into hi Sun)

After the Stor from the foot of the slope, Mat winced as he pulled his broadbri sun Partly to shield his eyes fro he did not want to see, though cuts and bruises re his teainst An oint, there and elsewhere, yet everything still hurt, and roorse The heat of the day was just beginning to take hold, but sas beading up on his face and already da his smallclothes and shirt Idly he wondered whether autumn would ever co how tired he was; even after a night with no sleep he would have lain awake in a feather bed, round Not that he wanted to be anywhere