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Elayne hefted the box and opened the lid, pursing her lips as she studied the contents, the other two ter’angreal they had carried all the way froht spiral, and a narrow plaque five inches long, see woman somehow carved inside it Either could be used to enter Tel’aran’rhiod, though not so easily or so well as could the ring; to use either it was necessary to channel Spirit, the sole one of the Five Powers that could be channeled in sleep It had see the the box with a sharp click, Elayne stared at her, absolutely expressionless, then stuffed it into one of her bundles alongside the silver arrow Her silence was thunderous

Elayne alsoout except the spangled coats and breeches Nynaeve refrained fro that she had overlooked the on, but she kne to promote harmony She limited herself to one sniff when Elayne ostentatiously added the a’daot in return, you would have thought she had th By the tion, the quiet could have been chipped and used to chill wine

Outside, theimpatient looks at her and Elayne It was hardly fair Galad and Uno had nothing to prepare Tho on his back in leather cases, along with a small bundle, and Juilin, notched swordbreaker at his belt and leaning on his headhigh staff, wore an even s to wear the saitte was ready, too, bow in hand, quiver at her hip, and a cloakwrapped bundle at her feet not much smaller than one of Elayne’s Nynaeve would not have put it past Birgitte to have Luca’s dresses in there, but it hat she wore that gave a moment’s pause Her divided skirts could have been the voluminous trousers she had worn in Tel’aran’rhiod, except for being athered at the ankles The short blue coat was identical in cut

The arments had co that she had taken too long, with two itte’s bundle She stayed to say how sorry she was that they were leaving the show, and she was not the only one to take a fewup Aludra ca, in her Taraboner accents And with two more boxes of her firesticks Nynaeve tucked the the others behind, and Elayne had pushed them to the back of the shelf, behind a sack of beans, when she thought Nynaeve was not looking Petra offered to help escort thehten with concern, and so did the Chavanas, and Kin and Bari, the jugglers, though when Nynaeve told them there was no need, and Petra frowned, they could barely hide their relief She had to speak quickly, for Galad and the other ly, even Latelle appeared briefly, ords of regret, smiles, and eyes that said she would carry their bundles if it saw theone any sooner Nynaeve was surprised Cerandin did not coet on famously with the woman, but since the incident where she had been assaulted, Nynaeve had felt a tension whenever she was around her, perhaps the n of the sa, a handful of pitiful, droughtdwarfed wildflowers at Nynaeve -- the Light alone knehere he had found theant praises for her beauty, and draain if he had to travel to the corners of the world She was not sure which rin from Juilin’s face and astonishht, they had enough sense to keep their features sitte or Elayne

The worst was that she had to stand there and listen, wilted flowers drooping over her hand, her face growing redder Trying to send him aith a flea in his ear would likely only have sparked hiiven the others more fodder than they already had She very nearly heaved a sigh of relief when the idiot man finally bowed himself away in elaborate flourishes of his cape

She held on to the flowers, striding ahead of the others so she did not have to see their faces and angrily shoving bundles back into place when they shifted, until she was out of sight of the wagons around the canvas wall Then she threw the bedraggled blossohclad Shienarans, squatting halfway across the lances Each had a blanketwrapped bundle on his back -- s about with enough water bottles to last for days, and every thirdso to be done, let the for them to decide whether she was safe to approach, she stalked out to the dirt road alone

Valan Luca was the source of her fury -- Hu her that way! She should have thuht! -- but its target was Lan Mandragoran Lan had never given her flowers Not that that was of any account He had expressed his feelings in words deeper and e She hadto carry you off, threats would never stop hied it before he turned your brain and your knees to jelly with kisses Still, floould have been nice Nicer than another explanation of why their love could never be, certainly Men and their word! Men and their honor! Wedded to death, was he? Hi to live, he was going to wed her, and if he thought differently on either point, she intended to set hiht There was only the small matter of his bond to Moiraine to deal with She could have screamed in frustration

She was a hundred paces down the road before the others caught up, glancing at her sideways Elayne only sniffed loudly while struggling to readjust the two large bundles on her back -- she would have to take everything -- but Birgitte strode along pretending to speak under her breath yet quite audiblyfrom a river cliff Nyn