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Elayne remained calm, but he could tell from the way she was even more formal when she spoke that the neorried her "Then I will be certain to return the ht," he said "Three days"

"Very well," she said "I want the Band to start i to Cairhien soon, and I have a feeling they would be a better support force there than the Queen’s Guards"

So that hat this was about! Elayne was ood use for thethehts with sell-swords

"I agree to that," Mat said, "but Elayne, the Band has to be free to fight in the Last Battle, however Rand wants And Aludra has to supervise the dragons I have a feeling that she’ll insist that she remain with you if the Band breaks off fro

"I figured you wouldn’t But, just so we’re clear, the Band has control of the dragons until we leave You can’t sell the technology to others"

"Someone will replicate it, Mat," she said

"Copies won’t be as good as Aludra’s," Mat said "I promise you that"

Elayne studied hi him "I’d still rather have the Band as a fully commissioned Andoran force"

"Well, I wish I had a hat old, a tent that could fly and a horse that leaves droppings of diamonds But we’ll both have to settle hat’s reasonable, won’t we?"

"It wouldn’t be unreasonable to--"

"We’d have to do what you said, Elayne," Mat replied "I won’t have it So to decide when my men put the men who could leave me at any time"

"You knoon’t hold theht"

"What you see as being right," she corrected

"Every man should have that option," he replied

"Few men use it wisely"

"We want it anyway," Mat said "We delanced--almost imperceptibly--toward the plans and the medallion on the table "You have it," she said

"Deal," he said, standing up, spitting in his hand, and holding it out