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So he and hisin the ood bath

Eventually, Troed up the line to him "All men are across safely" He checked the sky "Burn those clouds I can never tell what time it is"

"Four hours past midday," Galad said

"You’re certain?"

"Yes"

"Weren’t we to stop atwas to have taken place once they got through the swamp

"For noe have few choices," Galad said "I will lead the men northward to Andor"

"The Children have met…hostility there"

"I have some secluded land up in the northwest I will not be turned away there, regardless of who controls the throne"

Light send that Elayne held the Lion Throne Light send that she had escaped the tangles of the Aes Sedai, though he feared the worst There were many ould use her as a pawn, al’Thor not the least of the, and that could make her easy to e is difficult, and itih," Trom said, then lowered his voice "I’ll admit, Damodred, I worried that you’d refuse leadership"

"I could not To abandon the Children now, after killing their leader, would be wrong"

Trom smiled "It’s as simple as that to you, isn’t it?"

"It should be as simple as that to anyone" Galad had to rise to the station he had been given He had no other option "The Last Battle coht Even if we have to ht"

For some time, Galad hadn’t been certain about al’Thor Certainly the Dragon Reborn would have to fight at the Last Battle But was that man al’Thor, or was he a puppet of the Tower, and not the true Dragon Reborn? That sky was too dark, the land too broken Al’Thor on Reborn That didn’t mean, of course, that he wasn’t also a puppet of the Aes Sedai

Soon they passed beyond the skeletal gray trees, reaching ones that were more ordinary These still had yellowed leaves, too many dead branches But that was better than the fuzz