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"You havein the hallway and looking at Nynaeve "Do I really have you, Nynaeve?"

The former Wisdom stopped beside her "Of course you do Don’t be silly"

"And hoill it seewene asked, "if those who know ht it see they do not know? Some weakness that only my friends have seen?"

Nynaeve froze Suddenly, her honesty"This wasn’t about asking wene said "Only a fool would ignore the advice of those who support her But how did it feel for you, those first weeks when you beca looked at you only as the girl they had known?"

"Terrible," Nynaeve said softly

"And were they wrong to do so?"

"Yes Because I’d becoer, it wastheht," Nynaeve said "You caught wene said "Not just because you’re so strong in the Power, not just because you’re a clever, deterly untainted by Tower politics, and not just because you’re one of the feho knew Rand before this all began But because I need people I can trust implicitly If you can be one of those"

"You’ll have "

"And? Would you have done it for another Amyrlin?"

"Not happily"

"But you’d have done it"

"Yes"

"And do you honestly think there is another ould do a better job than I?"

Nynaeve hesitated, then shook her head

"Then why is it so bitter for you to serve the Amyrlin? Not me, Nynaeve, but the station"

Nynaeve’s face looked as if she’d drunk so very bitter "This will…not be easy for me"

"I’ve never known you to avoid a task because it was difficult, Nynaeve"

"The station All right I’ll try"

"Then you er to cut off Nynaeve’s objection "To remind yourself, Nynaeve It needn’t be per of ht You’ve prickedwindsatter’s draught all day" She hesitated, then added, "Mother" She ally