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Egwene broke in "Rand and the Aiel have won a great victory at Cairhien" Out it all ca she had told them in their dreams, from Sammael to the Seanchan spearhead Each word almost tripped over the next, and she drove every one holances with Elayne Surely she had told theined it, not with every word confir the not quite Aes Sedai agelessness of her face, looked amazed at the flood
"Mat killed Couladin?" Nynaeve exclaimed at one point That had certainly not been in their drea soldiers? Mat?
When Egwene finally trailed off, shifting her shawl and breathing a little quickly -- she had barely paused for breath along the way -- Elayne said weakly, "Is he well?" She sounded as if she was al to doubt her own memories
"As well as can be expected," Amys said "He drives himself hard, and listens to no one Except Moiraine" Amys was not pleased
"Aviendha is with hiood care of him for you"
Nynaeve doubted that She did not know much about Aiel, but she suspected that if Amys said "hard," anyone else would say "reed "Then why is she letting hi?"
Quite a bit, it turned out, and clearly toothe sith Lan or anyone else he could find Thatthe Aiel way of fighting without weapons Egwene e, but Nynaeve was all too aware of how helpless you could be when you could not channel Still, Rand certainly should never find hilords and ladies about In fact, he spent soafter them to make sure they did what he said, that he would not spare ti him food wherever he was For sowene almost as h her face went back to Aiel stoniness once she saw Nynaeve notice Yet another hour each day was given to a strange school he had founded, inviting not only scholars but craftslasses to a woe crossboith pulleys that could hurl a spear a mile He had told no one his purpose there, except as that the urge to leave so in everyone Moiraine did not seem to care what Rand did
"What rerionwall to theotten theone already Rhuarc says he has not even told the chiefs why, and I do not think Rhuarc would lie to me Moiraine stands closer to Rand al’Thor than any except Aviendha, yet she refuses to ask hih in her defense, I will say that even Aviendha has learned nothing"
"The best way to keep a secret is to tell no one," Elayne told her, which earned her a hard stare Amys was not far behind Bair when it came to stares thatto reason it out here," Nynaeve said, fixing her gaze on Egwene The other wo the balance between theht as well be now "What I want to know --"
"You are quite right," Egwene cut in "We are not in Sheriae about and chatter What have you to tell us? Are you still with Master Luca’sright out of her head There was so much to tell And so much not to She clai between the Forsaken, and spoke only of seeing Moghedien spying Not that she wanted to avoid telling how she had been handled by Moghedien -- not really; not exactly -- but Birgitte had not released them fro about Birgitte at all, that she ith theitte was helping thewene knew nothing at all, but Nynaeve wene arched her eyebrows The Light be thanked, Elayne helped her present Samara as Galad and Masema’s fault Which it was, in truth If either had simply sent to tell her about the ship, none of the rest would have followed
When she finished -- with Salidar -- Amys said quietly, "You are certain they will support the Car’a’carn?"
"They on as well as Elaida," Elayne said "The best way to oppose her is to attach themselves to Rand, and make it clear to the world that they intend to support hihtest quaver in her voice betrayed that she was not speaking of an absolute stranger "Otherwise, they are just rebels, with no claiitimacy They need him at least as much as he needs theree yet
"I think I rewene said "Hollow eyes and a sour ine hi a riot or a war I’wene’s cheeks colored slightly; even the memory of Galad’s face could do that "Rand ant to know about Maseh to listen"
"I want to kno it happens that you are both here," Amys said She listened to their explanation, and turned the plaque over in her hand once Nynaeve fished it out Having the ter’angreal touched by so it made Nynaeve’s skin crawl "I believe you are less here than Elayne," the Wise One said finally "When a Dreamwalker enters the World of Dreams in her sleep, only a tiny bit of her reh to keep her body alive If she puts herself into a shallow sleep, where she can be here and also speak to those around her in the waking world, she looks as you do to one who is here fully Perhaps it is the same I do not know that I like it, any wo able to enter Tel’aran’rhiod, even in this state" She returned the t