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"My choice, Moiraine," he muttered "It was one, tell him that what I did to him, I did for the best He will understand one day, and I hope, bless me for it

Trust no woman fully who is now Aes Sedai I do not speak sih you must always be watchful for them Be as suspicious of Verin as you are of Alviarin We havefor three thousand years That is a difficult habit to break, as I have learned while dancing to your song You must dance free, and even the best intentioned of uide your steps as I once did

Please deliver Thoain There is a small matter that I once told him of which I must make clear for his peace of mind

Lastly, be wary too of Master Jasin Natael I cannot approve wholly, but I understand Perhaps it was the only way Yet be careful of him He is the same man now that he alas Reht illuned simply "Moiraine" She had almost never used her House naain closely Somehow she had knoho Asmodean was It had to be that Known that one of the Forsaken was right there in front of her, and never blinked once She had knohy, too, if he read it right He would have thought in a letter that would go blank when he set it down, she could have co Asmodean About how she had learned what she had in Rhuidean -- souess, and asout more from the letter as from them -- about Aes Sedai -- was there a reason she mentioned Verin? And why Alviarin instead of Elaida? -- even about Thom and Lan For some reason he did not think she had left a letter for Lan; the Warder was not the only one who believed in clean wounds He alht have warded it the same way she had his Aes Sedai and Cairhienin, she had wrapped herself in mystery and manipulation to the end To the end

That hat he was trying to avoid with all this blather about her keeping secrets She had knoould happen and co it waited She had died because he could not bring himself to kill Lanfear He could not kill one woman, so another died His eyes fell on the last words

You will do well

They cut like a cold razor

"Why do you weep here alone, Rand al’Thor? I have heard that solared at Sulin, standing in the doorway She was fully accoutered, cased bow on her back, quiver at her belt, round hide buckler and three spears in hand "I’m not " There was dampness on his cheeks He scrubbed it away "It’s hot in here Makes ht you had all decided to abandon o back to the Threefold Land"

"It is not ho have abandoned you, Rand al’Thor" Shutting the door behind her, she sat on the floor and laid her buckler and a pair of the spears down "You have abandoned us" In one ainst the last spear between her hands, heaved, and snapped it in two

"What are you doing?" She tossed aside the pieces and picked up another spear "I said, what are you doing?" The whitehaired Maiden’s face iven even Lan pause, but Rand bent and seized the spear between her hands; her softbooted foot cahtly

"Will you put us in skirts, and make us marry and tend hearth? Or are we to lie beside your fire and lick your hand when you give us a scrap ofhis palm with splinters