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Mat gri the foxhead like a talis to put my head on the block just because those fool woet it now I’ase was a pretty woman -- I even liked her; as much as you can like a queen -- but Rahvin is Rahvin, burn you, and I --"

"Shut up and listen You have to stop running"

"Burn ame I chose, and I won’t --"

"I said, shut up!" Rand drove the foxhead against Mat’s chest with a hard finger "I knohere you got this I was there, re froot shoved into your head, but whatever it is, I need it The clan chiefs knoar, but somehow you know it too, andto do, you and the Band of the Red Hand "

"Be careful towene paused at the door to her roo backflips, but she kept her voice steady "We kno dangerous facing one of the Forsaken will be" By Aviendha’s expression, theyabout as for supper But then, she was never afraid of anything

"Do you, now," Moiraine murmured "Be very careful anyhether you think one of the Forsaken is near or not Rand will need both of you in the days to coh I may say your methods are unusual He will need people who cannot be driven away or quelled by his rages, ill tell him what he must hear instead of what they think he wants to"

"You do that, Moiraine," Egwene told her

"Of course But he will still need you Rest well Tolided away down the corridor, passing froht was already co to these shadowed halls, and oil was in short supply

"Will you stay withthan eating"

"I must tell Amys what I have promised to do to chamber when he comes"

"Elayne can never complain that you haven’t watched Rand closely for her Did you really drag the Lady Berwyn down the hall by her hair?"

Aviendha’s cheeks colored faintly "Do you think these Aes Sedai in -- Salidar? -- will help him?"

"Be careful of that name, Aviendha Rand cannot be allowed to find them without preparation" The way he was now, they would be entle him, or at least send thirteen sisters of their own, than help him She would have to stand between them in Tel’aran’rhiod, she and Nynaeve and Elayne, and hope those Aes Sedai had committed themselves too far to back out before they discovered how near the brink he was

"I will be careful Rest well And eat well tonight In the ood to dance the spears with a full sto her hands to her stoht or in theRahvin And hedien and won But Nynaeve was stronger than she or Aviendha, when she could channel at all There ht not be another Rand said the Forsaken did not trust one another She could al, or at least that he was not so certain It was frightening when she thought she saw another h his eyes, heard another man’s words come out of his mouth It should not be so; everyone was reborn as the Wheel turned But everyone was not the Dragon Reborn Moiraine would not talk of it What would Rand do if Lanfear was there? Lanfear had loved Lews Therin Telaon felt for her? How mu