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Elayne, though, gasped at the sight of theer of a"What happened? Oh, Thom, your poor head That must hurt so This is beyond my abilities Nynaeve will take you inside and see to it Thoet yourself into scrapes like this"

Indignantly, he fended her off as best he could while holding his compress in place "Leave over, child I’ve had worse than this falling out of bed Will you leave over?"

Nynaeve was not about to do any Healing, despite being angry enough She planted herself in front of Juilin, fists on her hips and a brooknononsense, answer off without tellingElayne know that she was not in charge "If you had gotten your throat cut instead of a mouse on your eye, hoould we knohat had happened to you? There was no reason for you to go None! Finding a ship has been seen to"

Juilin glared up at her, shoving his cap forward over his forehead "Seen to, is it? Is that why the three of you have taken to stalking about like --?" He cut off as Tholeeman had quieted Elayne’s concerned flutters with protestations that it had just been a iven Juilin a significant glance he obviously hoped the woerous eye back to the dark Tairen, to learn just what it was he thought they had been stalking about like

"A good thing we did go," he told her instead in a tight voice "Samara’s a school of silverpike around a chunk of bloodyDarkfriends and anybody else who isn’t ready to hail the Prophet as the one true voice of the Dragon Reborn"

"It started three hours or so ago, near the river," Tho his face with a da her , since Nynaeve could clearly hear "foolish old et yourself killed" as in a tone easily as exasperated as it was fond "How it began, I don’t know I heard Aes Sedai blamed, Whitecloaks, Trollocs, everybody but the Seanchan, and if they knew the name, they’d blame them, too" He winced at Elayne’s pressure "The last hour ere a little too personally involved in getting clear to learn itte said Petra and his wife noticed her pointing and stood to stare worriedly Two dark plumes of smoke rose above the canvas wall in the direction of the town

Juilin rose and looked Nynaeve in the eyes with a hard gaze "It is tihedien to find us, but I doubt it; there are people running every direction they can run In another two hours, it won’t be a pair of fires, it will be fifty, and avoiding her won’t do ood if we’re torn to pieces by a mob They’ll turn to the shows once they have smashed what can be smashed in the town"

"Don’t use that name," Nynaeve said sharply, with a frown for Elayne that the younger wo men know too ht, but letting a man know that too quickly was a estion, Juilin I would hate to run away for no reason, and then learn that a ship had coht after we left" He stared at her as if she wereit still for her washing, but a figure htened Nynaeve "Perhaps it’s come already"

Uno’s painted eyepatch and scarred face, his topknot and the sword on his back, attracted casual nods from Petra and the various Chavanas and one shiver fro visits hi to report His presence now had to itte as soon as he saw her, and rolled his lone eye in an ostentatious stare at her exposed bosorinned back and eyed hih, Nynaeve did not care how reprehensibly they behaved "Is there a ship?"

Uno’s grin faded "There’s a bloo-- a ship," he said griet you to it whole"

"We know all about the rioting Surely fifteen Shienarans can get us safely through"

"You know about the rioting," heThom and Juilin "Do you fla-- do you know Mase Whitecloaks in the streets? Do you know he’s bloo-- he’s ordered his people to take Amadicia with fire and sword? There are thousands across the blo-- aagh! -- the river already"

"That’s as may be," Nynaeve said firmly, "but I expect you to do as you said you would You proht e look

Pretending not to see, the woman stood, bloodied washcloth in her hand, and directed her attention to Uno "I have always been told that Shienarans are ae to her voice had suddenly becoal silk and honey "I heard many stories of Shienaran bravery when I was a child" She rested a hand on Thom’s shoulder, but her eyes remained on Uno "I remeitte stepped closer and beganthe back of Uno’s neck while she looked hi red eye on his eyepatch did not seeht," she said gently Gently It had been two days since she had spoken to Nynaeve like that! "Three thousand years, and never a step back not paid for ten times over in blood This may not be Enkara, or the Soralle Step, but I knohat you will do"

"What did you do," he growled, "read all the fla Borderlands?" Ilanced at Nynaeve It had been necessary to tell hie out of hi it well, but there was no other way to prevent backsliding, and Birgitte should not frown at her "Can you talk to them?" he directed at Thom and Juilin "They’re fla-- fools to try this"

Juilin flung up his hands, and Thohed out loud "Did you ever knooleerunted as Elayne pulled his co at his split scalp with perhaps a bit more force th