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"Nynaeve, have you thought about hoe’re going to be received?"

Nynaeve looked at Elayne in astonishh, and defeated the Black Ajah twice Well, they had had help in Tear, but Tanchico had been all their doing They brought news of Elaida and the Tower she illing to bet no one in Salidar had And most importantly, they could help these sisters reet us as heroes, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they kissed us before today is done" Rand alone would be worth that

Two of the barefoot sailors leaped out to hold the rowboat against the current, and Juilin and the Shienarans splashed ashore as the sailors scra in the anchor

"Clear us a path, Uno," Nynaeve said "I mean to be there before dark" Frorowth, two ull her That worried herelse

Chapter 50

(Flame of Tar Valon)

To Teach, and Learn

So down Nynaeve’s face had very little to do with unseasonable heat, and she ondering whether it ulled them Or refused to carry theht slanted sharply through ithher skirts in blended irritation and unease, she tried to avoid looking at the six Aes Sedai grouped around one of the sturdy tables near the wall Their mouths moved silently as they conferred behind a screen of saidar Elayne had her chin high, her hands folded calhtness about her eyes and the corners of her al air Nynaeve was not sure she wanted to knohat the Aes Sedai were saying; one stunning blow after another had knocked all her high expectations into a daze One ht scream, and she did not knohether fro except their clothes was laid out on that table, froitte’s silver arrow in front of stout Morvrin to the three ter’angreal before Sheriailded coffers in front of darkeyed Myrelle Not one of the woht have been carved from snow, even motherly Anaiya wore a stern mask, and Beonin’s look of constant wideeyed startle more Sometimes Beonin made as if to touch the white cloth spread neatly over the cuendillar seal, but her hand always stopped and retreated

Nynaeve’s eyes jerked away froo wrong The Warders who surrounded them in the woods had been proper, if cool -- once she made Uno and the Shienarans put up their swords, anyway And Min’s wars But the Aes Sedai and others in the streets, caught up in their own errands, had scurried along with hardly a glance for the party being escorted in Salidar was quite crowded, with ar in nearly every open space The first person aside from the Warders and Min to pay any attention to them at all had been the lean Brown sister they were taken to, in what had once been the common rooreed on to Phaedrine Sedai, or tried to Five , with strict orders not to move a foot or speak a word, even to each other Tenat one another in confusion, while all around them Accepted and whiteclad novices, Warders and servants and soldiers bustled between tables where Aes Sedai pored over papers and briskly handed out orders, and then they had been hustled before Sheriam and the others so quickly Nynaeve did not think her shoes had touched the floor twice That hen the grilling had begun,heroes Nynaeve dabbed at the perspiration on her face, but as soon as she tucked the handkerchief back up her sleeve, her hands returned to their grip on her skirts

She and Elayne were not alone standing on the colorful silk carpet Siuan, in a plain dress of fine blue wool, ht have been there by choice if Nynaeve had not known better, her face cool, utterly coht Leane at least watched the Aes Sedai, yet she appeared equally confident In fact, somehow more selfconfident than Nynaeve remembered The copperskinned woman looked even more y, too, more supple in soreen silk was every bit as highnecked as Siuan’s, but it clung to every curve of her, and the ed to be opaque by a thin hair It was their faces that truly stunned Nynaeve, though She had never expected to find either alive, and certainly never looking so very young -- no more than a few years older than she if that They did not so ht she detected a distinct chill between them

There was another difference about thenize If everyone including Min had been ginger about it, no one made any real secret of the fact that they had been stilled Nynaeve could feel that lack Perhaps it was being in a room where all the other wo they had been stilled, but for the first time she was truly conscious of the ability in Elayne and the others And its absence fro had been taken from them, cut away It was like a wound Perhaps the worst wound a woman could suffer

Curiosity overcame her What sort of wound would it be? What had been cut away? She , and the irritation that larded itself through her nervousness She reached out to saidar

"Did anyone grant you permission to channel here, Accepted?" Sheria the True Source

The greeneyed Aes Sedai led the others back to their ed on the carpet in a se wos fro at Nynaeve, earlier eeless faces acknowledged the heat by so ently chiding voice, "You have been very long from us, child Whatever you have learned in the interval, you have apparently forgotten ive me, Aes Sedai I did not ht it was sha tiiven the orders and people jumped when she spoke Now she was the one ex