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"Yes,his leathery face "I should probably learn this technique rather than continuing on rounds Though there’s so to talk to you about first If you’ve the tiroup To the side, several of the other Wise Ones came forward and told Neald it was their turn to try the circle with hie, and he was quick to obey He’d been walking lightly around the Aiel since he’d said so Maiden’s Kiss

"What is this about, Grady?" Perrin asked once they were a little way off

"Well, Neald and I are both well enough toif I ht have leave to slip over to the Black Tower for an afternoon, to see ot a wife and a son The Asha’man didn’t often talk about them Actually, he didn’t often talk aboutup at the darkly clouded sky "We have Whitecloaks ahead, and there’s still no telling for sure if those Shaido will loop around and try to ambush us I’m loath to be without you until I knoe’re so, ot how young the man was, only six or seven years older than himself Grady seemed so much older in that black coat, with his sun-darkened face

"We’ll find a ti until we have word of what’s been happening since we left" Inforht hih Perrin hadn’t given hi to smell like people who saw hian

"You never worried about this before, Grady," Perrin said "Has soot a whiff of his scent Hopeful "It changed a feeeks back I know that people don’t believe it, but I swear to you that it did happen"

"The taint was cleansed?" Perrin asked

Grady nodded

The Asha’man insisted that the h others were skeptical Perrin believed them As impossible as it seemed, Grady didn’t smell mad when he spoke of this event Besides, it seeht have been about The colors swirled in front of him He banished them

"You said it happened, and I trust you, Grady But what does this have to do with the Black Tower and your faree?"

"Oh, they’ll agree," Grady said "It’s…well, my Lord, I’m a simple man Sora, she’s always been the thinker I do what needs doing, and that’s that Well, joining the Black Tower, that was so to happen when I was tested I kneas in me It was in my father, you see We don’t talk about it, but it was there Reds found hiht after I was born

"When I joined the Lord Dragon, I kneould happen to ht as well spend theon told me I was a soldier, and a soldier can’t leave his duty So I haven’t asked to go back before now You needed one I’o ht But now I’ve got a reason to live, too"